The Art of Thinking of Chinese Ancient Sages

Author: Sun Zhongyuan
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: This book processes typical cases with the aim of unifying popularity, scientific rigor, and authenticity. To enhance popularity, it cites ancient texts and explains them in modern Chinese. To ensure scientific rigor, accuracy, and authenticity for easy reference, it marks many citations with specific chapters and volumes. A small amount of classical Chinese is included as evidence for arguments, presented in footnotes for optional reading. The book lists typical cases, which serve as the basis for analyzing thinking skills and elaborating on logical knowledge, often titled as sections. Thinking skills and logical knowledge (thinking patterns, concepts, propositions, inferences, and thinking methods) are the elevation of these cases, often titled as chapters. Typical cases of thinking skills are the materials, scriptures, outlines, and cross-sections, while logical knowledge is the viewpoints, weaves, frameworks, and longitudinal sections. The book adopts an argument-driven approach, using thinking skills cases to derive logical knowledge, interweaving the threads, highlighting the essence, and creating a complex and interconnected narrative.
The Book of Songs, Small Odes, Ode of the Crane Says: "The stone of another mountain may be used to polish jade." Modern logic, originating from the West, is a common thinking tool for humanity in the modern era, the key to unlocking the mysteries of the thinking skills of Chinese sages. Du Fu's poem "Viewing Mount Tai" states: "I shall climb to the peak and survey the surrounding mountains." Standing at the pinnacle of modern logic with a macroscopic, bird's-eye view is the only way to grasp the full picture of the thinking skills of Chinese sages.