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The Study On The Relation Between Process Philosophy And Chinese Traditional Mental Culture

Posted on:2010-09-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T JiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360275462862Subject:Basic Psychology
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In the ground of western culture, Process Philosophy is one of the most important philosophical thought, and has a close relation with Chinese traditional mental culture.The correspondence between them shows in three aspects:the whole view;the process view;the harmony view.Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism all thought mind, society, universe and everything on earth as a unitary and integrated system, all strived hard for an oneness to make everything on earth organic whole, and they all found"Taoist". The whole view of Chinese traditional mental culture are similar to Whitehead's organic universe view. Whitehead argued against the thinking mode of substantialism, and thought"event"as the basic of the world. The events connect with each other, bear with each other, and make a compositive entity, viz. organism. Small as atomic, molecule, big as nature, society and the whole universe, are all zoetic organism.Process philosophy think that the world is composed of organism, but it isn't an stable organism, but an active configuration. The essential character of organism is activity, the activity shows in process. The whole universe is in a creative process towards novelty. Similar to Whitehead's philosophy, Chinese traditional culture also think everything on earth are all in movement. The change is general, and the universe is a mutative, variational, changeable and creative process.Whitehead replaced the traditional mechanical nature view with the universe view of organic process, thought environment, resources and people as a living community in which they associated with each other, viz. ecological system. In this system, people and nature are fellows who develop together. The spirit of harmony was annotated in Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, which shows in three aspects: the harmony between people and society;the harmony between people and nature;the harmony between people and selfThe difference between them is also put up in three aspects:moderateness and Adventure; do Nothing and Creativity; enjoyment and CrucifixionConfucianism canonized"Golden Mean", one side it ensures the harmony among people and promotes the unity and stabilization of society, on the other side it prohibits the exertion of personality and creativity, which makes against the construction of the democratic thought and system. Oppositely, process philosophy advocated adventure very much, especially adventure in concept, which is"in pursuit of new perfection".Taoism's"Do Nothing"thought is negative and nihilistic, without"do something"in reconstruction of nature and society. Oppositely, Whitehead's philosophy is creative philosophy. He advocated curiosity and novelty. In fact, the so-called"process"isn't a circle movement but"novel evolvement".Buddhism is full of crucifixion, the whole cultivation is no doubt a process of self anneal and self striving. Oppositely,"enjoyment"in process philosophy is more enlighten than"process", and all unit of process philosophy is all characteristic of enjoyment, all have some kind of subjective immediacy, and all have internal value.In conclusion, the encounter of process philosophy and Chinese traditional psychological culture has very far-reaching meaning. So the study on process philosophy is helpful for the innovative study of Chinese traditional mental culture and the native development of psychology, it is also helpful to solve the current disharmony in people and people, in people and nature, in people and self, which plays an important role in actualizing the concept of scientific development, and stratagem of establishing a harmonious society.
Keywords/Search Tags:Process Philosophy, Chinese Traditional Mental Culture, Correspondence, Difference
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