The Nature and Mission of Philosophers

DOI

10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.56How to use a DOI?

Keywords

philosopher; nature; mission; spirit; responsibility

Abstract

In today’s world, cultural convergence is coexisting with ethnic division and economic cooperation is going with political opposition. Diversity of values and value differences are profoundly changing the world. Within the context of globalization, discussions and conversations regarding values and the construction of values are issues raised by this era waiting to be solved urgently; and these are also historic responsibilities and missions for philosophers. The nature and missions of philosophers should be caring for the reality, being problem-orientated, responding to concerns of the society with intense sense of responsibility to the society; perusing the value of "ultimate realness", "ultimate kindness" and "ultimate beauty" while standing on the essence of philosophy; insisting on the fundamental idea of "putting people first", exploring the substantive characteristics of questions of reality, researching and summarizing the general law and value relation regarding the development of questions of reality. Accordingly, philosophers can grasp the trend and value elements of development, providing conditions and value bases for pushing things to develop from lower level to higher level, from disorder to an ordered state and from lower end to higher end of the value chain; and incrementally, make full use of philosophers’ humanistic values and social functions and reflects to philosophers’ self-recognition, self-improving and the noble pursuit of "changing the world".

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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