High-Tech Pan-Materialism and Humanist Ethics

From a Chinese-Western Historical Perspective

Youzheng Li (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

210 Seiten

2022 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5275-8692-5 (ISBN)

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This book explores how the human-scientific mode of spiritual resources may be reorganized to balance the extremely materialist civilization of today. It discusses the dominance of the high-tech commercialization of the Earth and the serious weakening of rational-spiritual stamina, as well as institutional rigidity in the humanities. The book also considers traditional Chinese intellectual history inspired by the classical Chinese humanist-ethical spirit as revealing the cross-historical universality of humanist-lined ethics rooted in human nature. Although the natural sciences and social sciences have led to the unprecedented progress of material human civilization, the fundamental factor that determines the rational orientation of spiritual civilization should be the modern human sciences that are reorganized in terms of semiotic strategy and humanistic ethics, leading hopefully to a new era of enlightenment for mankind. The book asserts that humanistic ethics, as the central spirit of the humanities, includes both epistemology and action dynamics. The pertinent activation of both depends definitively on the subject’s free willpower.

An independent scholar, Youzheng Li is the former Vice-President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies and a former Senior Fellow of the Chinese Institute of Philosophy. In over six decades of independent inquiries, his three main objectives have been introducing contemporary western humanistic theories to Chinese-speaking communities, modernizing the scholarship of traditional Chinese intellectual history, and making attempts at the hermeneutic reformulation of historical Chinese humanistic ethics. He was one of the representatives of the first philosophy delegation of CASS to the 17th World Philosophy Congress in Montreal in 1982, which signified the cessation of Leninist ideology in post-Maoist China, and he was also a coordinator of the 11th IASS Congress in Nanjing. He is the author and translator of over 40 academic books in Chinese and English.

Erscheinungsdatum	03.10.2022
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5275-8692-8 / 1527586928
ISBN-13	978-1-5275-8692-5 / 9781527586925
Zustand	Neuware