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What's the difference between China's philosophy and western philosophy?

China school of traditional philosophy, Laozi's Taoism, specializing in contradiction theory, objective idealism.

Confucius' Confucianism does not count, theft and pedagogy.

Zhuangzi's theory is similar to materialism.

China's philosophy is based on Laozi's theory of contradiction, but it has not been fully developed. Later, it became a mixture of numerology theory and traditional Chinese medicine, and a yin-yang family appeared. At first, it was as simple as the five elements theory, and later it was combined with the theory of contradiction. Most of the philosophies mentioned by China people are the traditional moral norms of Confucius and Xunzi. Because most people don't understand the basic meaning of philosophy. There is also Neo-Confucianism headed by Zhu in the Song and Ming Dynasties, which is objective idealism. This idea was also used by the court at that time, so it ruled among scholars for a period of time. The theory of mind and nature, represented by Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Shouren, is subjective idealism, and it is a problem from awakening to neo-Confucianism. Because the first question cannot be answered, many people turn to psychology. As well as Mahayana Buddhism, which was produced by Buddhism through the adaptation of its sixth ancestor Huineng. Causality theory is also the bulk of China's philosophy, and now it can be mutually confirmed with the causality theory of western philosophy.

Modern China is led by Marx's dialectical materialism.

Western philosophy was first inspired by Thales' water-based world theory and Heraclitus' world as fire theory, but Aristotle's logic became the main body of later philosophy. Among them, the greatest contribution of western philosophy is Hegel's dialectical theory and Kant's view of time and space. Later, with the participation of Newton's classical mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity, he completed the materialistic western philosophy based on natural science. Other philosophies are Catholicism and other sects.

Generally speaking, China's philosophy is developed on the basis of humanities, while western philosophy is developed on the basis of natural science. Modern China's philosophy is dialectical materialism, but most of it is in an unformed state. Therefore, in the process of globalization of capitalist market economy, China has become a country without faith.