 An important notion in Modern Confucian epistemologies is the advanced concept of the traditional moral self, which in the new global philosophies was intended to assume the function of a “truly” autonomous cognitive subject. While this subject acts and perceives the world as an individual, necessarily forming a part of the social community, it is also ennobled by an infinite heart-mind, which enables it to be aware of its unity with the universe. This new, moral and infinite, limitless subject represents an elaboration of the “traditional” Confucian concept of the moral self, and thus may also be the active personality that can sustain the idea of modernization. In the Confucian framework, this self is autonomous precisely due to its rational and structural (li 理) connection with all aspects of its natural and social environment. Further, because this connection is also dynamic and organic, it is capable of infinite forms of communication and cooperation. For a Chinese model of modernity, i.e. for a modernity permeated with humanism or mutuality (ren 仁), these forms of communication and cooperation are much more important than formal laws of economy and official politics.