He has not wavered in his interest for decades, and is, with Tang Chun-yi and Hsu Fu-kwan, a leading representative of "New Confucianism" at the forefront of passing along Chinese traditions for half a century.
其師熊十力先生在給友人的信中曾經提到「宗三出自北大，北大自有哲系以來，唯此一人為可造」，日後證明，牟先生與唐君毅、徐復觀等諸位「新儒家」的代表，無論在學術或人格風範上，都為中國文化的傳續工作，支撐了近達半個世紀。