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On Feng Youlan’s Perception and the Meaning of Life
Jialing Li
School of Marxism, Hunan University of Science and Technology, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.
*Corresponding author: Jialing Li
Published: July 17, 2023
Abstract
In 20th century China, the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign philosophical thoughts are flowing like a flood, and they also compete with each other, collision and run-in. Feng Youlan, after systematically studying the domestic and foreign philosophical thoughts, is committed to borrowing the western philosophical form and combining with the essence of China's excellent traditional philosophy, so as to make his own contribution to the turn of Chinese traditional modernity. In Feng Youlan's thought system, he takes perception as the fundamental basis, absorbs and draws on the excellent ideas of ancient and modern times at home and abroad, and establishes a set of knowledge system about cognitive synthesis, the foundation of this system consists of two parts, namely "awareness" and "acquaintance", which complement each other. The consequences, on the one hand, can be traced back to people themselves, which affirms the existence of people and also carries out deep reflection on people. On the other hand, it is to rise from it to different realms of morality. In today's era, multi-faceted information, and knowledge diversification are becoming more and more obvious, and it still faces problems such as the establishment and improvement of knowledge system and value system. Mr. Feng's thoughts are still of great value to us.
Keyword
Perception, Knowledge, Man
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On Feng Youlan’s Perception and the Meaning of Life
How to cite this paper: Jialing Li. (2023) On Feng Youlan’s Perception and the Meaning of Life. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(6), 1112-1116.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.06.012