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Youlan (1884 – 30 September 1921), of the Manchu Plain White Banner Gūwalgiya clan, was a consort of Zaifeng and the mother of Puyi (Xuantong Emperor), the last emperor of China's Qing dynasty.
Feb 22, 2017 · Born in 1895 in Hetang County of Henan Province of China, Feng Youlan was a great modern philosopher, thinker and educator. Praised as one of the major founders and researchers of modern philosophy in China, Feng made significant contributions to the study and development of Chinese philosophy history with his works as well as his ...
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Feng Youlan (born Dec. 4, 1895, Henan, China—died Nov. 26, 1990, Beijing) was an outstanding Chinese philosopher of the 20th century. Feng was educated at Peking (A.B., 1918) and Columbia (Ph.D., 1923) universities and in 1928 became professor of philosophy at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Feng Youlan, whose zi (“style”) or courtesy name was Zhisheng, was born on December 4, 1895, in Tanghe County, Henan Province, to an affluent and prominent family. Feng’s father completed the highest level of study required by the Qing dynasty imperial civil service and headed the local Confucian academy, but also maintained a personal library that...
a. A Comparative Study of Life Ideals
In 1923, Feng wrote his doctoral thesis A Comparative Study of Life Ideals. As the title of his thesis suggests, the relationship between Chinese and Western cultures was the focal point of his philosophical thinking. According to Feng, all forms of philosophy fall into three categories: “the philosophy of subtraction,” “the philosophy of augmentation,” and “the middle way.” Philosophers who value the natural world and distain human interference with nature wish to return to a state of innoce...
b. Six Books of Zhengyuan
The so-called Six Books of Zhengyuan includeA New Philosophy of Principle, New Discourses on Events, New Social Admonitions, A New Inquiry into Man, A New Inquiry into the Tao, and A New Understanding of Language. Here, Feng’s approach was strongly constructive, as he intended to carry forward the Chinese philosophical tradition through these publications. Inspired by Neo-Confucian thinkers such as Cheng Yi, and Zhu Xi, Feng called his philosophy the “New Philosophy of Principle” (Xin lixue)....
Feng began work on A History of Chinese Philosophy during the 1920s. Prior to its publication in 1934, the only available modern critical history of Chinese philosophy was Hu Shi’s Outlines of the History of Chinese Philosophy(1919), which was the first attempt to break away from traditional genres of writing about the history of Chinese philosophy...
Views of Feng’s philosophical legacy vary according to cultural context. In China, Feng is considered to be one of the few original philosophers that twentieth-century China produced. Not remembered for his classroom eloquence by his former students, Feng Youlan nevertheless was able to impart his scholarship on, and passion for, Chinese philosophy...
Chen, Derong. Metaphorical Metaphysics in Chinese Philosophy: Illustrated with Feng Youlan’s New Metaphysics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011.Chen, Lai. Tradition and Modernity: A Humanist View. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2009.Cheng, Chung-Ying, and Nicholas Bunnin, eds. Contemporary Chinese Philosophy. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.de Bary, William Theodore, and others, eds. Sources of Chinese Tradition. 2 vols. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999-2000.Feng Youlan (1895-1990) was a representative of modern Chinese philosophy who tried to reconcile traditional Chinese thought with Western philosophy. He wrote a history of Chinese philosophy, a synthesis of Neo-Confucianism and Western philosophy, and a comparison of life ideals.
This is an intellectual biography of Feng Youlan [Fung Yu-lan] (1895-1990), one of the preeminent Chinese philosophers of the 20th century. Feng’s life very well captured the vicissitudes of twentieth-century Chinese politics and scholarship.
- Xiaoqing Diana Lin
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Jieshi Diao Youlan. First section of Youlan, showing the name of the piece: 《碣石調幽蘭第五》 "Jieshi Diao Youlan No.5", the preface describing the piece's origins, and the tablature in longhand form. Jieshi Diao Youlan ( Chinese: 碣石調幽蘭; lit.
Feng Youlan (馮友蘭, 冯友兰, Féng Yǒulán; Wade-Giles: Fung Yu-lan) (1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded as the outstanding Chinese philosopher of the twentieth century.
