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The Universality of Philosophy and the Chinese Thought

Publication |
2005

Abstract

The philosophically specialized article presents results of my research at the department for the Chinese thought history of the Hong Kong University (July 2005). I delt there with the problem whether and how far the priciples of the formal logic could made use within the area of the Chinese thought.

I closed on the strenght of detailed analysis with conclusion the Chinese thought having a conceptual content drastically different from that of Western thought. The obvious contrast here with Western thought lies in the absence of compositional units corresponding to sentences.

Chinese thinkers did not focus e.gr. on truth conditions. Their philosophy of mind did not include any theory of beliefs.

Their ethical sentences did not focus on universal prescriptive rules. For all that it could be distinguished a 'implicit logic' here according to Chinese experts.

This forms a link connecting the Asian and the Western thought.