On Li Zhe Hou's "Idea of Western Essence, Chinese Practice"-A Materialist's Evaluation of Traditional Chinese Culture

Philosophy and Culture 29 (3):218-231 (2002)
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Mr. Li Zehou in his "History of Thought in Ancient China" and "History of Modern Chinese Thought," presented its "Western body using" concept. As a typical form of the dialectical materialist, he affirmed traditional Chinese culture is different from traditional real affirmation of their own, which also shows the thinking of traditional Chinese culture and spirit of the mental outlook of dialectical materialism is really out of tune of. Lee that in addition to social reality and individual intellectual elements, the Chinese thought the most important element is to promote the development of the Chinese people's "practical reason." This is the reason that the Chinese people always used in very practical terms, in his own words: "focus on the reality of social life, not as a purely abstract speculation, do not let irrational passions run amok, everything emphasis on" practical " "implementation" and "reality" to meet the problem of empiricism in the level of thinking and advocated love of behavior management section, things of life that is optimistic and enterprising spirit and take a sober approach to life. "Lee that it is This makes the Chinese tradition of practical reason as well as its modern vitality. In addition, Lee and the neo-opposed to Mencius's idea that those are the people but do nothing to suppress the production of the empty state, so he was opposed to the "saint of the school" and stressed that the so-called "outside the traditional king," that is the reality social development and political reform. Lee's so-called "West Town" is the modern Western social productive forces and production methods, "using" is "practical reason" and "outside the King." But that said, "West body using," "Outside" has long been a matter of fact, "West Town" to digest, so "using" will in fact only "practical reason." The practical reason was the specific social performance: "reason to know the attitude and pragmatism, the moral doctrine has remained after their ancestors, after the private power of light Xian Gong." Therefore, a "West body using" a social fact that Western culture and technology have advanced, there are the ethical, humane manner, with a human face to the West to the overall society. In saying so, in fact, the traditional Chinese thinking and too extraordinary or even the office must be preserved, because the moral, human, humane and other solid non-Chinese culture patents, all of this in the Western tradition there, do not have any "Western body using "Westernization not necessarily have no ideal society. Lee's dialectical materialism ideological character makes him the one hand, denied the essence of traditional Chinese thought, on the one hand and certainly a bit of Chinese culture in the nonessential elements, making his "West body using," said the root surface not really sure that the traditional Chinese thinking and culture of modern values

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