A Philosophy of Life -- The Philosophy of Feng Youlan

Author: Renmin University of China
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: What is the purpose and value of life? How can one attain happiness in life? Everyone asks themselves these questions. Mr. Feng Youlan approaches this from a philosophical perspective, drawing nourishment from the spirit and veins of traditional Chinese culture, and provides us with an alternative answer to the philosophy of life. This book is one of the main works of the philosophical master Mr. Feng Youlan from the 1920s, systematically and incisively elaborating on his philosophical concepts of life influenced by neorealism. In 1919, Feng Youlan went to the United States for study, studying under the neorealist Meng Dagang and the pragmatist master Dewey. He later recalled: "In my philosophical thought, pragmatism was dominant first, then neorealism." His ideological shift from pragmatism to neorealism is quite evident in A Philosophy of Life. In it, Feng Youlan attempts to combine neorealism with traditional Chinese philosophy, and this idea was fully developed in his later constructed system of New Logicism.