Ethnologist Li I-yuan of Academia Sinica points out that the Confucian advocacy of the Middle Way makes mankind's "harmony" and "equilibrium" with the cosmos and nature a supreme value.
中研院院士、人類學學者李亦園就指出：儒家講「中庸」之道，人類與宇宙萬物共處時是否「和諧」、「均衡」，就成為最高的價值判斷標準。