21st Century Value Philosophy: From Spontaneity to Consciousness

Author: Wang Yuliang
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book conducts an in-depth study on the significant developments, prolonged stagnation, and reasons for the in the evolution of value philosophy over the past century, with a focus on exploring the pathways and methods for value philosophy to overcome its predicament. Through meticulous logical reasoning and theoretical arguments on value philosophy from different periods in China and abroad, it demonstrates that the fundamental reason for the theoretical confusion and long-term stagnation of the dominant value philosophy theories in contemporary countries worldwide is the worship of spontaneity. By carefully analyzing the two existing forms of value philosophy in the world today—theoretical value philosophy and practical value philosophy that starts from practice and its outcomes—it is only through examining the existence, functions, and development of value that one can correctly understand the essence of value. The book systematically proposes a theoretical model centered on "consciousness" that meets the developmental needs of contemporary value philosophy, including realistic thinking, developmental thinking, practical thinking, and dialectical thinking. It seeks to promote the genuine prosperity and development of value philosophy through a theoretical trajectory from spontaneity to consciousness, thereby constructing a new system of 21st-century value philosophy that is oriented toward reality and the future, full of vitality and dynamism.