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China's famous philosopher
In recent years, with the deepening dissatisfaction with the current situation of China's philosophy research, the legitimacy of China's philosophy has also become a topic of constant concern to researchers, and even been rated as one of the top ten academic hot topics in 2003 by some publications. Dissatisfaction with the current research situation leads to the discussion of its legitimacy, which in itself illustrates the particularity of China's philosophy. This particularity lies in that, unlike literature and history, China people didn't know "philosophy" until they came into contact with western culture.
There is no word "philosophy" in China's traditional scholarship. China's word "philosophy" was invented by the Japanese philosopher Western Zhou Dynasty. He translated the word "philosophy" for the first time in "On a Hundred Schools of Thought" (1874), but at the same time he specifically explained that he used it to distinguish it from the eastern Confucianism. It was not until 1902 that China first applied "philosophy" to China's traditional thought in an article in Xinmin Cong Bao. Use is useful, but it doesn't solve a realistic problem: Is there anything in China's traditional thought that can be called "philosophy"?
For some westerners, the answer is no. Husserl denied China's philosophy in his Vienna speech. Gadamer also believes that mysterious meditation and wisdom in Far East culture are not the same thing as western philosophy. The reason is zhe ...