Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2018)

First Steps of the History of Chinese Philosophy in China

Authors
Valery Kiselev
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Valery Kiselev
Available Online June 2018.
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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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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science (ICMESS 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
June 2018
ISBN
978-94-6252-520-7
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icmess-18.2018.392How to use a DOI?
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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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