Theory of Chinese and Western Cultural Forms (ePub)

The book is divided into three pieces. It is composed of "e;Great Differences between Chinese and Western Cultural Forms"e;, "e;Modern and Contemporary Trend of Chinese Culture"e; and "e;Modern and Contemporary Exploration of Kantian Academic Viewpoints"e;. The main axis is the contrast and analysis of Chinese and western cultural forms (so is research on Kantian academic viewpoints). For a long time, mixture of Chinese and western cultures has resulted in serious academic crisis. To eliminate such crisis, we can only start from the root of Chinese and western cultures to analyze the generating process and methods of Chinese and western cultural forms. The book traces and inherits fundamental concepts on the differences between Chinese and western cultures of predecessors including Liang Shuming, Qian Mu and Mou Zongsan: Western culture is material pursuing culture which deals with the relationship between "e;man and materials"e; and is "e;outward"e; culture; Chinese culture is temperament culture which deals with the harmonious relationship between "e;man and man"e; and is "e;inward"e; culture. The thinking basis of the generation of western culture is mathematics/logic; the thinking basis of the generation of Chinese culture is destiny/temperament. Therefore, if the two are mixed, the theory will collapse in full. The book carries out critique and reflection on many contemporary confused concepts and the attitude of doing scholarly research combining "e;sincerity and fraud"e;. It doesn't avoid mentioning sages and only pursues academic reality.