Chinese Philosophy : Its Spirit And Its Development

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A long waited for monumental classic and a milestone of Chinese philosophical scholarship, it is by no means merely an addition to the stock of historical works on Chinese thought already in existence; nor is it merely a piece of scholarly research under-taken to meet academic requirements. It is a book "written in blood, "to echo Nietzsche, springing out of one's in-dwelling l...(展開全部) A long waited for monumental classic and a milestone of Chinese philosophical scholarship, it is by no means merely an addition to the stock of historical works on Chinese thought already in existence; nor is it merely a piece of scholarly research under-taken to meet academic requirements. It is a book "written in blood, "to echo Nietzsche, springing out of one's in-dwelling lived experiences. Performed as a Herculean feat, it stands alone, combining erudite scholarship with originality of insight: unprecedented, unrivalled, unique of its own kind. In a way reminiscent of Werner Jaeger's Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture and Sir Richard Livingstone's Geek Genius and Its Meaning to Us it presents the essence of Chinese philosophical tradition in such a masterful exposition as to take up the whole gamut of four major systems of thought in one sweep: ─ Primordial Confucianism, PrimordialTaoism, (Sinicized) Mahayana Buddhism, and Neo-Confucionism. It covers a span of four millenia of spontaneous, continuous growth and development from the ancient times down to the modern period. Unfolded by a manshalling hand that commands the massiveness of materials with maximum lucidity and fascility, the book itself reads like a piece of grand“thought symphony”(as W. Windelband might call it), representing thus the highest peaks of Chinesephilosophical mentality and power of vision, while directing our focal attention to a form of axiological idealism grounded on a value-centric process ontology which, in turn, culminates in a philosophical anthropology. In method of t

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