6. this is because ethics, politics, reflective thinking, and knowledge were unified in the philosopher; in him, knowledge and virtue were one and inseparable. His philosophy required that he live it; he was himself its vehicle.
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Preview "The Spirit of Chinese Philosophy" by Feng Youlan through thinking on and answering the following questions.
1. How does Feng refute Westerner’s idea that Confucianism is a religion?
2. What is the difference of fundamental importance between China and other major civilizations according to Professor Derk Bodde? What is problematic about this judgment? How does Feng solve it?
3. What is the function of the tradition of Chinese philosophy? How does Feng take this function to work in the future?
4. Is Chinese philosophy “other-worldly” or “this worldly” philosophy?
5. What is the problem for Chinese philosophy to solve? What is the task of it? What is its bearing on our self-cultivation? How is an idealized sage named by Mencius?
6. According to Professor Y. L. Chin, how can a philosopher’s philosophy be his biography?
7. What do the paragraphs 4 on page 12 and 3 on page 13 tell us about the language feature of Chinese philosophy?
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7. It can be seen that traditional Chinese philosophy attaches importance to understanding the meaning beyond language and words, for the reason that it recognizes the limitation of language expression function, which is different from Western philosophy. Western philosophy attaches importance to the logic of language and pursues the certainty of language expression. However, Chinese traditional culture does not attach importance to clear and strict logical reasoning, because the strict logical reasoning can not break through the limitation of language function. Therefore, Chinese culture shows a special emphasis on understanding.
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1. To the westerners , it appears that Confucaianism ia a religion. As a matter of fact , however, Confucianism is no a religion than, say, Plationism or Aristelianism. It is true that the Four Books have been the Bible of the Chinese people, but in the Four Books there is no story of creation , and no mention of a heaven or hell. The terms of philosophy and religion are both ambiguous. Philosophy and religion m ay have entirely differnert meanings for differrnt people. For his understanding , what he calls philosophy is systematic, reflecive thinking on life. Though the books of Confucianism are full of briefness and dis connectedness of the sayings and writings . They still reflect a kind of systeamtic and reflective thinking on life.
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4. Chinese philosophy is both of this world and of the other world. Speaking about the Neo-Confucianism of the Sung Dynasty, one philosopher described it this way: "It is not divorced from daily ordinary activities, yet it goes straight to what antedated Heaven." This is what Chinese philosophy has striven for. Having this kind of spirit, it is at one and the same time both extremely idealistic and extremely realistic, and very practical, though not in a superficial way.
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3. The function of the tradition of Chinese philosophy is the elevation of the mind--a reaching out for what is beyond the present actual world, and for the values that are higher than the moral ones.
In the world of the future, man will have philosophy in the place of religion, which is consistent with Chinese tradition. It would be necessary that man should be philosophical.
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4. Chinese philosopy is both of this world and of the other world. It cannot be said to be wholly this-worldly or wholly other-worldly. On the surface, Chinese philosophy is concerned with government and ethics. Therefore, it seems that Chinese philosopy is concerned chiefly with the society. However, it is only a surface view of the matter. According to Chinese philosophy, the sage must be both this-worldly and other-worldly. The sage's character is described as one of "sageliness within and kingliness without". That's to say, he should accomplish spiritual cultivation, and at the same time, function in society. In conclusion, Chinese philosophy has striven for a synthesis of this world and other world.
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6.The philosopher must live his philosophy and be the vehicle of his philosophy. He needs to experience philosophy and be part of philosophy instead of just knowing and learning. Ethics, politics, reflective thinking, and knowledge should be unifie. Knowledge and virtue must be combined into one.
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6.I think Professor Y. L. Chin means “the unity of knowledge and action”. A philosopher must be the vehicle of his idea, using the spirit of “other-worldly” to do the things in “this worldly”. What’s more, Chinese philosophy is always about a person how to arrange his own life, which is the most difficult to arrange in this world. So, if a philosopher uses his philosophy to arrange his life well, his biography will be his philosophy.
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1.Feng refutes Westerner's idea by distinguishing the difference between phylosophy and religion. For his part, philosophy is systematic, reflective thinking on life while religion is a phylosophy with a certain amount of superstructure which consists of superstitions, dogmas, rituals, and institutions. Although the Four Books has been the Bible of the Chinese people, but there is no mention of creation, heaven, hell or something else about superstructure. So Confucianizm cannot be considered as a religion.
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4. Chinese philosophy is both “other-worldly” and “this-worldly”. To get to the true meaning of life one needs to find “Tao”, which is only suggested and cannot be told. And to get all walks of life a better world to live in, a philosopher needs to care for this-life issues, and to teach their means of ruling.
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