近代以来，受到中西互竞的文化背景影响，为了给儒家哲学提供合法性证明，学者们一方面强调儒家哲学与西方哲学一样都有超越性，另一方面又强调儒家哲学与西方哲学的外在超越不同，是一种内在超越。由于这种证明没有注意西方哲学的超越是一种以自我为中心的自我超越，从而使得儒家哲学的建构最终与西方哲学殊途同归，成为一种自我超越。实际上，儒家哲学否定自我中心论，要求"毋我"，希望在现实世界中通过时间与空间两个维度走向他者，实现一种与自我超越截然不同的对自我的超越——超越自我。正是因为儒家哲学强调超越自我，使得儒家哲学不太重视自我的权利以及由此而派生出来的自我对他者的义务，而是更加重视自我对他者的道德责任，这对于现代社会中由于权利意识的盛行而引发的激烈冲突具有消解作用。

To prove the legitimacy of Confucianism against the backdrop of the contention between China and the West since the modern times, scholars have emphasized that Confucianism, as Western philosophy, embraces transcendence on the one hand, and Confucian transcendence is internal while Western transcendence external on the other. However, it has been ignored that the transcendence in Western philosophy is self-centered while Chinese transcendence is self-overcoming since Confucianism advocates the inclusion of the other from both temporal and spatial dimensions in the real world. It is due to the fact that Confucianism advocates self-overcoming that it pays more attention to one's moral responsibilities to the other rather than one's rights as well as one's derived duties to the other. This may help to ease the intense conflict rooted in the prevalent consciousness of right.