Conflict Between Chinese and Western Views on Humanity (A New Exploration in Cultural Comparison)

Author: Yang Shi
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Publish Date: 1991-03-01
Features: The fundamental viewpoint of this book is that the center of culture is the human being, and the center of cultural understanding is the theory of human beings, which are both historical and specific. The entire book revolves around the differences between Chinese and Western theories of human beings, revealing the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese and Western cultures and theories of human beings formed on the basis of private ownership: In traditional Chinese Confucian culture, "human relations" lack freedom and equality; in traditional Western free culture, "freedom" lacks the equality and freedom of close and harmonious relationships between people in a commercial context. At the same time, it points out that both patriarchal theories of human beings and commercial transactional freedom are the result of different emphases in the alienated development of humans in the pursuit of freedom and the progress of human relations; the trend of human cultural development is to transcend alienation and pursue the harmonious unity of freedom and human relations.