From Mohism to the School of Names, from pragmatism to materialist dialectics : Chinese interpretations of Gongsun Longzi as a text and source of Chinese logic, 1919-1937

Vrhovski, Jan (author)

This article aims at providing a general overview of the development of interpretational discourse on Gongsun Longzi (公孫龍子) as a text in Chinese logic in the timeframe between the May Fourth events in 1919 and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in 1937. In my attempt to highlight the main interpretational approaches to the text and philosophy of Gongsun Long (公孫龍, 320 BC-250 BC) I will, on one hand, focus on the question whether or how the Western philosophies and notions of logic, such as for instance that of pragmatism, analytic philosophy and dialectical materialism, infuenced the above-mentioned interpretations. On the other hand, aside from its contextual evolution I will also try to cast some new light on the main milestones of its textual re-emergence and development in the early Republican period.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Gongsun Longzi, Chinese logic, history of logic, Republican China
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2020
• Year: 2020
• Number of pages: 511-538
• Numbering: Vol. 7, no. 4
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142879
• UDC: 16(510)(091)
• ISSN on article: 2197-4241
• DOI: 10.1007/s40636-020-00202-0
• COBISS.SI-ID: 40933891
• Publication date in RUL: 30.11.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International communication of Chinese culture
• Shortened title: Int. commun. Chin. cult.
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 2197-4241
• COBISS.SI-ID: 58159458

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 17.11.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Gongsun Longzi, kitajska logika, zgodovina logike, Republikanska Kitajska

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: N6-0161
• Name: Humanizem v medkulturni perspektivi: Evropa in Kitajska