Thome Fang and the Union of the Cultures
Abstract
Group of Chinese philosophers in the twentieth century, the United States east side is a modern sense of a world vision and character. His intense East-West confrontation, the various companies contend China's modern cultural trends in the overall context, adhere to the position of Chinese culture-based, to take in Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy for the modern and innovative twist, switch to the new road. Some commentators have pointed out, Fang Dongmei's philosophical line represents a "first to understand the West, then back to rebuild the traditional" spiritual direction, the so-called "in pursuing the construction of attitude." Fang Dongmei's philosophy reflects the coherence of things, Prehension public house, was to the characteristics of Chinese culture-based, on behalf of the Chinese philosophy in the modern conditions for reconstruction and development and direction of an attempt. Among the Chinese Philosophers in the 20th century, Thome Fang was a great master who had a universal eyesight and contemporary thought. On the whole background of Chinese contemporary cultural thoughts, in which Chinese culture conflicted fiercely with Western culture and so many various schools of thought disputed each other, Fang Persisted in the standard Position of Chinese culture, meanwhile, absorbed in Western Philosophy. So he started a new path for the Chinese philosophy's contemporary transformation and development. Some scholar pointed out that Fang's philosophical route represented a spiritual position called post -Wusi-Mind which comprehends West before, then returns to reconstruction of the Chinese tradition. Fang's philosophy embodied the characteristics that mixes East and West together, absorbs thoughts of various schools, and persists in the standard of Chinese culture. It represented a new trend of the reconstruction and development of Chinese philosophy in the contemporary time