First Steps of the History of Chinese Philosophy in China

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10.2991/icmess-18.2018.392How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Chinese philosophy; History of Chinese philosopy; Xie Wuliang; Hu Shih; Feng Youla

Abstract

Chinese philosophy begins in ancient and archaic times, but if we make a scrupulous research, we find that real Chinese philosophy begins only in the beginning of the 20th century, when Japanese translation of the word “philosophy” — zhexue — came to China, and Chinese scholars began to create histories of Chinese philosophy. In the first part of the 20th century a number of “histories of Chinese philosophy” was created. Most influential of them were “Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy” by Hu Shih and “History of Chinese Philosophy” by Feng Youlan. These works formed our modern understanding of Chinese philosophy, made Chinese philosophy more accessible to the Western readers, but at the same time, served as basis for doubts as to whether there was Chinese philosophy in itself, or it was only a stereotyped exposition of traditional Chinese thought by means of the system of Western terms.

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© 2018, 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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