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Chinese Philosophical History and Chinese Philosophical History
Author: Tian Wenjun
Source: “Confucius Research” No. 2, 2022
Abstract: The construction of Chinese Philosophical History is one of the most basic theoretical requests, which is to refer to the philosophical concepts of the Eastern people, combine the actual and connotation of philosophy, and define what philosophy is theoretically. In the study of Chinese philosophical history, people can only establish their own philosophical concepts first, and specifically evaluate the historical development of Chinese philosophy. In his “Speech of Philosophy History·Guidance”, Hegel pointed out: “Philosophy history will not only express the internal occasional facts of its content, but will clearly express the content – which seems to be only related to history – himself belongs to philosophy. In other words, the philosophical history itself is scientific, so it is essentially philosophy.” Hegel believes that the essence of philosophical history “is philosophy science” and also expresses the correct philosophy concept, which is the main focus of philosophical history.
Keywords: Philosophy; Chinese Philosophy; Chinese Philosophy History; Chinese Philosophy History
Author introduction: Tian Wenjun, male, born in 1948, from Yufeng, Hubei, taught by Wuhan University of Philosophy , doctoral supervisor, importantly engaged in the study of the history of Chinese Philosophy
The ten-volume academic version of the General History of Chinese Philosophy was compiled by Guo Qiyong. After 15 years, I finally met with readers! Baobao.com Rating This “General History of Chinese Philosophy”, which systematically clears the development of Chinese Philosophy history with more than 600,000 words per volume. It is the most macro-scale academic project in the field of general history research on Chinese Philosophy history in the new historical period. It represents the latest recognition results of the General History Research on Chinese Philosophy History in the current Chinese Philosophy History, and also represents the new contribution of the Wuhan-based Chinese Philosophy History to the construction of modern Chinese Philosophy History. Since the Wuhan University started the philosophy teaching department in 1923, the history of Chinese philosophy is one of its main professional goals. Since then, the Wuhan Chinese Philosophical History Points, namely, based on their own historical inheritance and academic characteristics, have formed their own system and become one of the Chinese Philosophical History Points in Chinese universities; former scholars such as Fang Dongmei, Fan Qikang, Shi Jun, and Zilifu participated in the construction of the Wuhan Chinese Philosophical History Points during the period of different historical periods. Among these former students, two important students have created the results of the General History of Chinese Philosophy: First, Teacher Fan Qiongkang published the book “A General History of Chinese Philosophy” in Shanghai Kaiming Bookstore in 1937; Second, in 1982, the high and low volume “History of Chinese Philosophy” compiled by Teacher Xu Lifu. Guo Qiyong taught the learningThe artistic version of “General History of Chinese Philosophy” is the most representative academic result of the Chinese Philosophy History subject in the new historical period. The three Chinese philosophical history works, which were composed in the different historical periods of history, are different in terms of their assessment objects and academic requirements, but in terms of their theoretical characteristics and academic values, they are actually different. This kind of “same” and “different” can lead to people’s pursuit: In the construction of Chinese philosophical history, why does Chinese philosophical history need to be constantly rewritten? Why do Chinese philosophical history works written by people during the historical period of differentiation, academic values differ? This kind of pursuit is a problem that every Chinese philosophical history researcher should always confront and constantly think about. I was fortunate to participate in the writing of the Song and Yuan volumes of “General History of Chinese Philosophy”, which benefited a lot. Here we should invite the topic of “Chinese Philosophical History and Chinese Philosophical History” to record one’s own thoughts on the way of studying Chinese Philosophical History.
1. Chinese philosophical history research needs to construct its own method system—Chinese philosophical history
The concept of philosophical science originates from the works of Greek fools. Chinese students apply philosophy to the concept of learning and introducing the Oriental academic civilization introduced by japan (Japanese) students. However, before applying the concept of philosophy, China is not without philosophy. Because philosophy is the essence of a civilized civilization; any civilized race with a long history includes its own philosophy in the civilization system it has created. In Chinese history, the “Academic Thinking” represented by the three schools of thought, especially the three schools of Confucianism, Gui and Taoism, includes the concepts similar to the content of Eastern philosophy. The derivation, replacement, evolution, inheritance and development of this “scientific thinking” has led to the development of Chinese civilization from the highest theoretical level for a long time, helping the construction of the Chinese ethnic group’s spiritual home, and engaging in the Chinese ethnic group’s spiritual energy. It is precisely this historical state of the development of Chinese civilization that has led China to move closer to modern times. When some students with sharp thinking and profound thoughts have strongly studied and discussed the importance of China’s “scientific thinking” development history and development trends when thinking about and exploring the modernization of Chinese civilization. Liang Qichao once believed in “The Great Learning of the Changes of Chinese Academic Thinking”: “In the same country, academic thinking is because people have energy; while no one likes “other people’s children” in political affairs and law. The child curled his lips and turned around and ran away. The customs and phenomena of the various species in history are their form and quality. Therefore, if you want to see the level of weak literature and literature in your country, you must seek it through your academic thinking. ”【1】The study of the history of Philosophy and Philosophical History has also believed that in the development of human social history, philosophical activities are the main content of the “ownership activity” of history. Therefore, evaluating a philosophy of a nation should become the main content of the history of a nation; without evaluating a nation, it is difficult to fully understand the age and the era of being assessed.. In the language of “Gongyoulan”, it is said: “History is the reality of philosophy; philosophy is the energy of history. If we describe the history of a generation of people without being philosophical, it would be like “painting dragons are not eye-catching”” [2]. In addition to fostering the philosophy of a tribe to understand the main principles of a tribe, it also confirms that philosophy can only be the philosophy of “one era and one tribe”. Such philosophy is a broad and unique unity. It has left the philosophy of different eras and different ethnic groups. It cannot understand the “what to say” of “philosophy”, and it cannot correctly grasp the meaning of philosophy. Therefore, after confirming the study of the philosophy of “one era and one ethnic group”, Rongyoulan specially emphasized: “The philosophy of one or one era is “one era” or “the philosophy of one era”, rather than “philosophy”, and the ‘white horse is not a horse’” [2年后其口]. In the eyes of the Youyoulan, although people can apply the concept of philosophy on the meaning of commonality, the main thing is to understand that any philosophy is a common unity; in reality, there is no “philosophy” that separates philosophy from different countries, different ethnic groups, and different eras. The contemporary and ethnic characteristics of philosophy are sophisticated by Youyoulan. The goal is to determine that Chinese civilization includes philosophy similar to those of Fang Zhexue.com. Before Rongyoulan knew that Chinese philosophy was confirmed, Wang Guowei also confirmed in “Philosophy Discern for Confusion” that “Philosophy is an inherent learning in China”, “Philosophy is not a harmless learning”, and “Philosophy is not a benefit learning”, emphasizing the need to create philosophy in modern Chinese academic categories.
However, since philosophy became a specific modern subject in China, especially the foundation of Chinese philosophical history as a branch of philosophy, people have never stopped their doubts about China’s philosophy that has no similarity to Eastern philosophy, and the use of Eastern philosophy concepts and philosophical history to study whether Chinese philosophical history can be fair. In the Chinese academic circle, the representative figure of philosophy and Chinese philosophy is Fu Sinian. Fu