Main Contents of Feng Youlan's History of China's Philosophy

This book divides the history of China's philosophy into two periods: the period of Zi Xue and the period of Jing Xue. The book is divided into two volumes. Zi Xue's era was mainly concentrated in the pre-Qin philosophers, and the Confucian classics era was mainly from Dong Zhongshu to Kang Youwei and Tan Sitong.

This is the first complete book on the history of modern China philosophy. It uses the form of western philosophy to explain the reality of China's philosophical thought, making China's traditional philosophy a modern discipline.

The basic framework of this book is generally accepted by China's philosophy history circle, and many viewpoints have become the final conclusion of academic circles. South Korean President park geun-hye said that the book helped him find inner peace.

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Feng Youlan's Development of China's Philosophical History

China's philosophy is one of the main types of traditional philosophy in the world. It devotes itself to studying the relationship between man and nature and the law of historical evolution from ancient to modern, and forms its own unique views on nature, history, humanity, epistemology and methodology, paying special attention to the connection between philosophy and ethics.

China's philosophy expresses the process of struggle and mutual influence between materialism and idealism, dialectics and metaphysics with its own unique theoretical thinking form, and reflects the class struggle and production struggle in the history of China in such a tortuous way.

The history of the formation and development of the theoretical system of Chinese world outlook. China's philosophy sprouted in the Yin and Zhou Dynasties and took shape at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended.

Its development has a history of more than 3000 years, and it can be roughly divided into 1949:

1. Slavery and its philosophy in the transitional period to feudalism.

2. Philosophy in feudal period.

3. Philosophy in the transitional period from feudal system to socialist society through semi-feudal and semi-colonial society. The first two paragraphs are called China's ancient philosophy, and the latter is called China's modern philosophy.

Baidu Encyclopedia-History of China's Philosophy