摘要
＂Imaginal thinking＂ epitomizes the basic contents and characteristics of the traditional mode of thinking in China. It is determined by the property of non-substantiality, which was the highest concept in Chinese thought and culture. Unlike the Western mode of conceptual thought featuring rationality and logic determined by the substantiality of its highest conception, the imaginal thinking is not a target-oriented and readymade mode of thoughts of duality containing the opposites of subject and object. On the contrary, it is intuitive as a whole, nontargeted and not ready-made. The rational and logical mode of Western conceptual thinking is necessary to us to realize modernization, but its alienated morphology such as scientism also brings some serious negative effects. Imaginal thinking is a more basic and primary mode of thinking than conceptual thinking oriented by rationality and logic.
