The Differences And Syncretization Of Chinese And Western Cultural Philosophy

In west, the conception of "cultural philosophy" appeared in one of Wilhelm Windelband's works which published in 1910.In China, HuShi first advanced the conception of "cultural philosophy" in 1931.However,what is cultural philosophy? How could we verily know the signification of cultural philosophy? In order to answer these questions, we must retrospect to the headwaters of cultural philosophy. The Latter-day industrial civilization revolution have brought human being unprecedented revolution of existing, from then on people have been living in a bran-new environment. With the development of Latter-day industrial civilization in the world, increasing problems have been emerging, the academia reflected these problems consequentially, and a new trend of thought present itself through the way of ideologists' consciousness. Concretely speaking, this course is: from demonstrating the greatness of God to paying attention to men and his artificiality, from admiring natural science and it's methods to exploiting territory of humanities, from "rational animadversion" to "cultural animadversion". When the ideologists reached the highness of "cultural animadversion", the objects of philosophy have changed, at the same time the character and forms of philosophy have also changed. Upon that, a new form of philosophy, cultural philosophy emerged as the times require. Cultural philosophy has broad sense and narrow sense. It's broad sense also has two sides: one is the unique way of thinking which the studies of all kinds of cultural study base their theories on, the other is the tradition of thinking after rational animadversion which exists in the whole process of philosophy's development. The narrow sense of Cultural philosophy is the study of metaphysical sense and ways of thinking of culture. From the broad sense of the cultural philosophy, we have plenitudinous reason to say that there was sprout of cultural philosophy in ancient China. However,after the five-four new cultural movement, Chinese cultural philosophy has come into being three principal trens of thought. Comparing with Chinese cultural philosophy,western cultural philosophy has more schools in the 20th century, but macroscopically has two trends of thought: humanism and scienceism. They have carried out the change from modern times to post-modern times respectively in different degree. After the Opium War, the intercommunion of culture between China and the western countries toke on a bran-new vision.In this course, the conflicts between Chinese and western cultural philosophy mainly have three aspects:the conflicts of "one world" and "two world", "centering on God" or "centering on universe", considering the ethic or the religion as the golden rule of the development of society. Of course, Chinese and western cultural philosophy have common grounds. For example, macroscopically speaking, their relationship with practice, politics and economy are the same, and they will evolute with the practice's development. Microcosmicly speaking, they have so many common domains of study. Besides these common grounds, Chinese and western cultural philosophy have differences in many aspects, too. For example, they have different way of thinking, different outlook on life, on ethic and on value, different configuration of mentality of culture, etc. In order to find a reasonable road of syncretizing Chinese and western cultural philosophy, we have made a clear distinction between them above paragraphs. Then we will find out possibility and realistic foundation from three existing roads of syncretizing Chinese and western cultural philosophy. On the one hand, three roads themselves make clear to us the possibility of their syncretization; on the other hand, their puzzles also give us helpful enlightenment for our synthetical innovation in culture.