How to Treat "Nature" Well-the Concern of the "Relationship between Heaven and Man" and the "Unity of Heaven and Man" in Yue-lin Jin's Philosophy

Philosophy and Culture 38 (5):27-52 (2011)
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Mr. Jin in Western philosophy and methods as a basis for the development of logic and theory of knowledge or even the system of metaphysics, he consciously for his metaphysics into the elements of Chinese philosophy and culture, as emotional sustenance and spiritual power, This is from his "On the Road" title can be seen from his use of a lot of classical Chinese philosophy inherent in the words Promise and tai chi, and love, body, and with a few and several, such as management and potential can be seen from He "Heaven" as the Chinese philosophy of faith and wisdom can also be seen. The face of human knowledge and power of modern civilization on the abuse and misuse, the face of unlimited expansion of the natural human desire, Mr. Jin advocate the use of "Heaven" to resolve the people's own internal conflicts, the conflict between man and nature and between people conflict, the elimination of human-centrism and self-centered, advocate the use of the saint's life to make up for deficiencies heroic life, the establishment of a harmonious happy life, to achieve given the nature of human being. Based western philosophy and methodology, Yue-lin Jin developed logics, epistemology and systematic metaphysic while, in the meantime, he consciously injected the elements of Chinese philosophy and culture into his metaphysics in order to bestow him with emotional reliance and spiritual momentum. You can see this fact clearly from the title of his book, On Tao, from his employment of many traditional vocabularies of classical Chinese philosophy and from how referred to the "unity of heaven and man" as the conviction and wisdom of Chinese philosophy. Confronted with the abuse and misuse of knowledge and power by modern civilization as well as the limitless amplification of human desire, Yue-lin Jin advocated the "unity of heaven and man" as the way to resolve the conflicts within oneself, the conflicts between man and nature, and the conflicts among people, to eliminate anthropocentrism and egocentrism. He asserted to redeem the flaws of a hero's view of life with a saint's view of life, establish a harmonious life of well-being and realize the given nature of man

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