Great Dictionary of Philosophy

Author: Xia Zhengnong et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publishing Date: 2003-08-01
Features: "The Great Dictionary" is a large-scale comprehensive dictionary. Its publication fills a gap in Chinese lexicography. To date, "The Cihai" is the only large-scale comprehensive dictionary in China, which not only includes single characters and general terms but also specialized terms across various fields, serving both as a language dictionary and a specialized dictionary. It boasts a rich vocabulary, convenient retrieval, strong practicality, and is widely favored by readers. With the accelerating pace of human knowledge accumulation and innovation, as well as the improvement of China's cultural literacy, many readers with higher educational backgrounds have raised higher demands for the of "The Cihai." Therefore, while continuing to compile new editions of "The Cihai" to meet the needs of the times, it is necessary to compile a larger-scale, more comprehensive, and richer comprehensive dictionary than "The Cihai." The compilation of "The Great Dictionary" is based on "The Cihai," inheriting its strengths and expanding further, with a focus on adding new fields and terms/meanings in various disciplines that have not been covered in "The Cihai," as well as appropriately filling in gaps. The entire dictionary contains approximately 250,000 entries and about 50 million words, more than twice that of "The Cihai." It is compiled and published in volumes according to disciplinary categories. Volume 1 includes over 6,272 entries related to the philosophy discipline. The selection scope includes nouns and terms, schools of thought and doctrines, figures, organizations and events, works and publications, etc. Volume 2 is organized into major categories such as the biographies and works of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin, the biographies and works of the main leaders of the Communist Party of China, Marxist philosophy, the history of Chinese philosophy, the history of Confucian studies, the history of foreign philosophy, logic, aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of science and technology. Each major category is further divided into several subcategories. The classification is intended to facilitate retrieval and does not represent any specific disciplinary system. Volume 3 includes interdisciplinary entries related to relevant disciplines, where each entry is selected by one discipline based on its primary aspect, while other disciplines only include terms.