Spiritual Value of Chinese Culture: A Review of Chinese Humanistic Spirit

Author: Zhao Xingliang
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book primarily explores the unique value of Chinese humanistic spirit and the issue of how contemporary society can reconstruct humanistic spirit. Based on an academic review of the development and origins of Chinese humanistic spirit, the author compares the similarities and differences between Chinese and Western humanistic spirits, humanistic spirit and religious spirit, and humanistic spirit and scientific spirit. From this, it proposes that the essential elements for reconstructing humanistic spirit in the contemporary era are: taking humaneness as the fundamental core; individuals as the fundamental premise; and freedom, equality, rationality, and justice as the basic principles.