Everyday Thinking and Non-Everyday Thinking

Author: Wang Guoyou
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This study attempts to systematically analyze and demonstrate the important cognitive level embedded in the lived world—everyday thinking. It elucidates the significance (connotation and denotation), foundation (logical and historical basis), structure (object structure, method structure, and subject structure), characteristics, operational mechanisms, value orientation, and historical evolution of everyday thinking through its intrinsic connection with non-everyday thinking. Furthermore, through a realistic analysis of traditional Chinese culture, it positions the critique and reconstruction of everyday thinking as a crucial cornerstone for the modern transformation of Chinese culture. In practical terms, by conducting an in-depth study of everyday thinking and integrating it with the actual cultural modernization during China's social transformation, it can uncover the challenges China faces in modernizing its way of thinking, explore pathways for the modernization of Chinese thinking, and provide profound theoretical insights for the practice of Chinese modernization. Therefore, the study of everyday thinking holds particular significance for Chinese culture, which primarily relies on everyday thinking as its cognitive framework, and it carries substantial practical implications for addressing modernization issues in China.