The Defining Character of Chinese Historical Thinking1

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4496396
AutoresChun‐chieh Huang (0000-0002-9020-305X, National Taiwan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen46
Número2
Páginas180-188
Fecha de publicación2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00398.x
OpenAlexW1999084943
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas1

Imbued with profound historical consciousness, the Chinese people are Homo historiens in every sense of the term. To be human in China, to a very large extent, is to be historical, which means to live up to the paradigmatic past. Therefore, historical thinking in traditional China is moral thinking. The Chinese historico-moral thinking centers around the notion of Dao, a notion that connotes both Heavenly principle and human norm.In view of its practical orientation, Chinese historical thinking is, on the one hand, concrete thinking and, on the other, analogical thinking. Thinking concretely and analogically, the Chinese people are able to communicate with the past and to extrapolate meanings from history. In this way, historical experience in China becomes a library in which modern readers may engage in creative dialogues with the past

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Character (mathematics) · China · Consciousness · Epistemology · Historical Thinking · History of China · Literature · Moral character · Norm (philosophy) · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Philosophy