Returning to Primordially Creative Thinking Chinese Wisdom on the Ho
This book identifies that “Xiang thinking” is the eidetic connotation and a fundamental trait of traditional Chinese thinking, offering insights of considerable methodological significance. "Xiang thinking" is a mode of thinking different from conceptual
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Returning to Primordially Creative Thinking Chinese Wisdom on the Horizon of “Xiang thinking”
Returning to Primordially Creative Thinking
Shuren Wang
Returning to Primordially Creative Thinking Chinese Wisdom on the Horizon of “Xiang thinking”
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Shuren Wang Institute of Philosophy Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing China
Translated by Dr. Lin Zhang
This book is sponsored by Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences ISBN 978-981-10-9046-2 ISBN 978-981-10-9048-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-9048-6
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Preface
“Returning to primordially creative thinking” qua the subject of this book is directed toward the fact that “primordially creative thinking” has been obscured and is, hence, lacking. Primordial creating demands the seeking of knowledge for reason but even more for eidetic understanding. The cultivation and improvement of the nature of eidetic understanding primarily rest not in rational logic-conceptual thinking but rather in “Xiang thinking”. My investigations as to “Xiang thinking” in recent decades aim to call people to attach importance to the cultivation of nature as such and to the promotion of primordial creating. In this preface, I would like to address my train of thought on presenting the category of “Xiang thinking” and relevant issues. In the 1980s, I presented the category of “Xiang thinking” and performed investigations around it. Nevertheless, the topic did not draw the attention of academia until the 1990s. That is to say,
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