In the last three decades, there has been a resurgence in Confucian and Aristotelian scholarship, both East and West, including a burgeoning of comparative studies. This academic outpouring has coincided with the emergence of China on the world stage. From an impoverished Third World nation-state, China has become the world’s second largest economy, a major military power, a significant investor in every continent, and a diplomatic powerhouse. This is no coincidence, for it reveals much more than academic curiosity regarding the striking similarities between the great Chinese thinker and the Greek. This scholarship indicates the growing perception that a possibility exists, unique in world history, for implementing a global ethic of virtue.