The liberating power of harmony and order
This paper discusses the thought of Zhang Shenfu, one of the central figures behind the propagation of modern science and dialectical materialism in Republican China (1911 – 1949). In particular, it focuses on the notions of liberty, mathematical logic and humaneness (ren 仁) in his writings in the period between the year of the May Fourth events (1919) and the late 1930s. The main aim of the analysis is to cast some light on the common conceptual and methodological features which underlay these interpretations, in order to reveal the essentially Chinese cultural “perception” or traditional worldview that served Zhang as the prism through which he viewed and understood the nature of and the relationships between all these “novel” concepts from the West. Consequently, an important aim of this paper will be to highlight a specific fragment of the intellectual mechanism that conditioned the so-called Chinese intellectual modernisation of the Republican period.
2022
2022-05-31 13:54:29
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Chinese philosophy, mathematical logic, humanism, liberty, Zhang Shenfu
kitajska filozofija, matematična logika, humanizem, svoboda, Zhang Shenfu
dk_c
Jan
Vrhovski
70
UDK
4
1(510)
ISSN pri članku
9
2585-8793
DOI
15
10.31577/aassav.2022.31.1.09
COBISS_ID
3
109912067
0531062809_Vrhovski_KOR3.pdf
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