Which is better, traditional Chinese culture or western culture? (Follow me to have a lot of 100 questions oh(^_^))

Comparison between traditional Chinese culture and Western culture

The fundamental characteristic of traditional Chinese culture is that it upholds autocracy and suppresses human nature. The fundamental characteristic of Western culture is that it focuses on building a fair and just society and liberating human nature.

Traditional Chinese culture favors practicality and despises contemplation. It dislikes the exploration of abstract concepts that have nothing to do with the practical, and gives top priority to the attention and study of human relationships. The core of traditional Chinese culture is the ethics of the human world. One of the evils of traditional Chinese culture is that it has made Chinese people hypocritical and selfish, smooth and worldly.

Western culture emphasizes practical as well as spiritual values. It especially emphasizes philosophy and religion, and puts a high priority on the search for a better society and human nature. Western culture respects human beings, and at the heart of Western culture are social ethics and humanitarian values. The fruits of Western culture have built a fairer and more just society.

Traditional Chinese culture, in the relationship between man and society, advocates that people adapt to society, and is concerned with people's conduct in the world and their cultivation. However, leaving the good society to adapt to an authoritarian society will only result in creating generations of shriveled and deformed Chinese. Traditional Chinese culture has crystallized a set of personal ethics about deformed personalities.

Western culture, in its relationship between man and society, advocates the adaptation of society to man, and is concerned with social justice, the transformation of society to conform to human nature. Therefore, it both transforms society and promotes the emancipation of human nature and the healthy development of personality. Western culture crystallized a set of social ethics about a fair society.

Today, Chinese people have to build their own spiritual edifice. Relying on a few worn-out Qin bricks and Han tiles will never do. We must recognize the advantages and disadvantages of the two cultures, and focus on the essence of Western culture (now known as universal values), while absorbing what is valuable in Chinese culture, in order for Chinese culture to truly rise.

Which temperature is higher, a kilogram or a centimeter?

This is obviously a very nonsensical question, one that people with a little common sense will not bother to discuss. The reason is simple: kilograms and centimeters are not even in the same unit of measurement, so how can they be compared?

But similar logic, which seems only slightly more complicated, has led several seemingly expert IDs to argue. They are arguing: Western culture or Chinese culture, which is more advanced?

What I think is an important difference between the natural sciences and the social sciences is that in the natural sciences there exists an objective measurement and comparison system independent of the disciplines, that is to say, the number of "more" and "less. 100 is more than 99, whether in the physical sense, the chemical sense, or the informatics sense. So, in the natural sciences, we can compare which machines work more efficiently - the one that produces "more" parts per hour; and we can also compare which countries perform better economically - the one that produces "more" GDP per year.

But the social sciences do not have such an objective, discipline-independent system of comparison. Who is greater, Confucius or Plato? Who is a better writer, Cao Xueqin or Shakespeare? You can continue to argue about such questions, and I am optimistic and confident that you will not be able to do so until your beard is gray. As you are now arguing with great gusto: which is more advanced, Western culture or Chinese culture?

Like the example given at the beginning of this article, comparing Western and Chinese cultures is like comparing the temperature of a kilogram and a centimeter. In the absence of the same unit of measurement, such comparisons are laughable.

Culture itself contains a measure of its own recognition. Chinese culture, for example, places more emphasis on the emotional aspects of cultivating oneself and interacting harmoniously with nature, while Western culture favors the rational aspects of maximizing efficiency.

So, in terms of the measure of Western culture, Western culture is of course superior to Chinese culture, because it is more efficient than Chinese culture. Similarly, in terms of Chinese culture, Chinese culture is far more advanced than Western culture because it is more harmonious than Western culture. As we can see, the strong argument of those who hold the "advanced Western culture theory" is that the material civilization of the West is extremely developed; while their opponents insist that the Chinese culture has the highest point in the aspect of "virtue".