Research on the Transcendence of Culture

Author: Zheng Guangyong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The book "A Study on the Transcendence of Culture" explores and elaborates on the following issues: First, the transcendence of culture directly originates from human transcendental consciousness. This is because human consciousness not only reflects the external world but also constructs a new meaningful world based on human activities. This is the direct consciousness foundation for the transcendence of culture. Second, understanding culture is understanding humanity. Therefore, the generative essence of human nature is consistent with the transcendence of culture. As a mode of being for humans, culture's transcendence points toward ultimate values such as truth, goodness, beauty, and sanctity. Third, to understand the transcendence of culture, one must explain its relationship with practice, subjectivity, values, history, and other existential issues. Elaborating on the relationship between the transcendence of culture and these issues is both a multi-angle exploration of the transcendence of culture and a demonstration of its essential consistency and commonality with these issues. This proves that cultural philosophy, along with practical philosophy, historical philosophy, value philosophy, and subjectivity philosophy, together constitute the various concrete forms of Marxist philosophy in the new era. Each form is reasonable and offers a valid interpretation of humanity, though from different perspectives. Fourth, the transcendence of culture has concrete manifestations. On a macro scale, it is reflected in the generation, crisis, and transformation of specific cultural models. On a micro scale, it is seen in the transcendence of primal culture, religion, art, ethics, science, philosophy, and other cultural forms. Fifth, the transcendence of culture coexists with utopian spirit. Utopian spirit is not entirely useless. It is both a direct manifestation of human transcendental consciousness and a practical critique that negates and deviates from the original purpose of critique. Sixth, traditional Chinese culture exhibits a unique transcendence, and it is precisely this cultural spirit that has nurtured the Chinese nation. In the current era, Chinese culture should not only keep pace with the trends of world history but also lead the world, embodying new transcendence or stronger critical and transcendent capabilities. Only in this way can the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation be achieved.