This book introduces Chinese philosophy along the line of topics instead of the line of history. The book has five topics, including: what is the nature of the world; what are the relationships among things; what are social norms; what is the orientation of life; what is the cognitive structure. The first two parts are about views on nature or the world; the third and fourth parts are about views on society and life; the fifth part is about views on cognition and wisdom. This book is intended to give readers the most basic understanding of profound Chinese philosophical thoughts as well as the most excellent and greatest wise ancient Chinese people and wisdom.
Wu Chun, alias Wu Jingdong, is a native of Quzhou, Zhejiang born in Shanghai in 1955. Now he is a professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Cross-culture, Shanghai Normal University, mainly studying the issue of the occurrence and paradigm of Chinese thought and philosophy and also engaging in the study of Chinese ancient science, ethics, religion and art. He has published more than 100 academic papers and more than ten works. His works on Chinese cultural studies have become a series, including Chinese Thinking Pattern – A Survey of the Occurrence and Formation Period, Paradigm of Ancient Chinese Science – Surveyed from the Perspective of Culture, Thought and Philosophy, Ethical Life in the Chinese Society – A Study Focusing on the Issue of the Possibility of Confucian Ethics, Religious Traditions in the Chinese Society – Opposition and Coexistence of Sorcery and Ethics and The Origin of Chinese Philosophy – The History of the Occurrence, Development and Formation of Ideas, Concepts and Thoughts before the Period of the Hundred Schools of Thought.
【目录】
Foreword
What Is the Nature of the World
The Birth of Beliefs
The Formation of Concepts about Nature
Observation and Thinking about Phenomena
The Quest for Essence and Laws
What Are the Relationships between Things
The Relationship between Heaven and Human, and Its Religious and Intellectual Background
The Dialectical Outlook
The Holistic Outlook
What Are the Social Norms
Moral Consciousness and the Establishment of Confucian Moral Principles
The Development of Confucian Social Norms
Reflections on Social Issues in Other Schools of Thought
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