The Integration and Criticism of Chinese and Western Philosophy by Mr. Zhang Shi-ying

Since the 80's, Mr. Zhang Shiying, feeling that the concept of "subjectivity" is not clear in the discussion of the domestic academic circles, has carried out an in-depth exploration of the contemporary Western philosophy, and according to the overall understanding of the Western philosophy, Mr. Zhang Shiying agrees with the view that the Western philosophy has gone through three revolutions in general. The first one is the Socrates-Plato turn, that is, from finding the root of things in concrete things to finding the root of things in the "world of the mind" of human beings, that is, in the "idea", thus opening up the precedent of the Western traditional metaphysics. The second is the philosophy of subjectivity based on "subject-object dichotomy" and "mind-matter duality" initiated by Descartes. The third is the modern and post-modern philosophy of the West, represented by Hoosier, which is characterized by the fusion of subject and object or the transcendence of the subject-object relationship. As for Chinese philosophy, Mr. Zhang believes that the idea of "the unity of heaven and mankind" has always been the dominant idea of Chinese philosophy. In "Between Heaven and Man - Confusion and Choice in Chinese and Western Philosophy", Mr. Zhang argues that Chinese philosophy lacks the idea of subject-object dichotomy and the principle of subjectivity, and is basically a philosophy that is based on the principle of the unity of heaven and man with former subjectivity or former subject-object dichotomy. And since the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, a group of thinkers have advocated learning from the West, and until recent years, the discussion of the subjectivity issue in Chinese philosophy can be regarded as a search for the principle of subjectivity in modern Western philosophy.