The Defining Character of Chinese Historical Thinking1

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4496396
AutoresChun‐chieh Huang (0000-0002-9020-305X, National Taiwan University, autor correspondente)
Ano2007
Volume46
Fascículo2
Páginas180-188
Data de publicação2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHistory and Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-2656 • E-ISSN: 1468-2303
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2303.2007.00398.x
OpenAlexW1999084943
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências 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