Western Philosophical Notes

The difference between Western philosophy and eastern way of thinking is so great that even after the translation of Western philosophical books almost all stale. Even after reading the original original of the Western philosophy of translation, it is still difficult to understand what Western philosophy is trying to say. This article if strictly according to the Western Philosophy expression way, the reader certainly will be in the foggy. Therefore, this article can only describe the most basic outline of Western philosophy, with a relatively intuitive, empirical and scientific way to express the contents of these university philosophy departments of more than 200 hours, to explore the basis of this philosophical thinking. What if this is. This method of expression may only give some ideas of philosophy to the reader, and can not show the Western philosophy of the way of thinking and the real way of reasoning, is only the Enlightenment of Western philosophical thinking mode. If the reader on this basis, but also want to more detailed understanding of the Western philosophy of thought, suggested to read one or two of Western great Zhe's original, such as Plato's "Ideal Country", Aristotle's "Metaphysics", Descartes "philosophy principle" and "metaphysical Meditation", Berkeley "Theory of Human knowledge" and " Hellas and Gustav Lonos's dialogue three, Hume's "Human Understanding", Kant's "Critique of Pure Rationality", Hegel's "Logic" and "History philosophy" and so on. The original version of an elementary introduction refers to the original translation of an elementary introduction, because learning a foreign language is not easy, and even if the foreign language is very good, it is not necessarily able to understand the original language, as we want to understand the Chinese philosophy book is not easy. If it is difficult to read the original an elementary introduction, it is suggested to start with Mr. Wang's general theory of Things.

"Philosophy" has both broad and narrow claims. "General philosophy" is probably to be all slightly mysterious things are advertised as philosophy, or, is the humble political propaganda Emily just in the meantime, so in modern China has already overrun. Therefore, the emergence of more "philosophers" of the situation, this is the radish cabbage philosophy. However, because of this, people are farthest from philosophy. Qian Zhongshu wrote in the book "Fortress Besieged": "China has never had a ' philosopher ', only a ' philosopher-study '." In other words, Chinese philosophical researchers are probably studying the philosophy of other philosophers, not their own. So there will be a lot of philosophers in China, but none of them is a philosopher. This article is only about "narrow philosophy".

Western Philosophical Notes