The Outline Of Creation Thoughts In Traditional Culture Of China

The topic of the thesis is creation values, tacit knowing and symbol-and-number thinking mode that are characteristic of traditional culture of China.The thesis reviews the origin and evolution of the word creation and its ramifications in Chinese. Referring to the origin and evolution of the word creation in English, the thesis points out that though the word creation in ancient China is earjy formed, its meaning is abundant, its feature is distinct, its usage is wide, creation was nevertheless not viewed as the basic spirit and value in traditional culture of China.The thesis discusses three main factors preventing creation value from establishing. The three factors are peasantry economy, fatality idea and the thoughts of Confucian classics. Distilled from Zhouyi and Zhongyong, producing and reproducing, self-completion and things-completing are used to construct the mode of creation values in traditional culture of China. The author expounds the unbalance between self-completion and things-completing. From the perspective of syncretism of heaven and man, the producing and reproducing philosophy takes the universal life and human life as the same one, therefore requests the people to strive to become stronger, and to make innovation constantly, which is the life value rooted in the traditional culture of China.The thesis discusses tacit knowledge and its fundament, and analyses the logic priority of tacit knowing, pointing out the epistemology meaning of tacit theory. After that, the thesis expounds Zhuang Zi, Guo Xiang and Zen's tacit knowing theory in detail, summing up Lao Zi's tacit theory and the differentiation between speech and idea as the background knowledge.The thesis introduces Zhouyi's symbol-and-number thinking mode, and analyses ' acquire the idea according to symbol' theory which is the core of symbol-and-number thinking mode. The chapter expounds symbol analogy and number analogy which is the two thinking method of symbol-and-number thinking mode and analyses the characteristics and deficiency of symbol-and-number thinking mode. Then symbol analogy and number analogy are used as an clues to discuss the importance of symbol-and-number thinking mode in the development of science and technology of ancient China.The thesis analyses the causes of the glorification to creation values in the 20th century. according to the difference chacracteristics in every period, the process of 20th century's creation values is partitioned into 4 parts, such as the revival of creation valule, the 'contention of different schools' of creation value, 'the people is the creator of the history' and 'completing things' as a tenet. The thesis expounds the 'tacit knowing' theory produced by Xiong Shi-li. The thesis regards the spreading and prevalence of the formal logic and scientism as the cause of the declining of imagination thought.The main innovations of the thesis are as follows:1) Under the guide of practice philosophy of Maxism, the thesis talks about value judgementg, epistemology, and thinking mode related to human's creation activities, breaking through the isolated, static research mode, so an new research frame is formed.2) The thesis produces an ancient creation value mode, which is constructed by producing and reproducing, self-completion and things-completing, and expounds'cheng' as the bridge between producing and reproducing and 'self-completion and things-completing' .3) Summing up the previous works, t thesis expounds Zhuang Zi, Guo Xiang and Zen's tacit knowing theory in detail.