摘要
1 Approaching East Asian and Intercultural PhilosophyIn contrast to its pre-modern interpretation in the West, still evident in early modern philosophers such as G. W. Leibniz and Christian Wolff, the conception of philosophy in Western modernity has been typically restricted and deformed in ethnocentric and ideological definitions as an intrinsically Western and occidental tradition that contradicts its own ostensibly universal aspirations.1 This questionable understanding of philosophy as a mythical unified self-unfolding transmission from ancient Greece to Western modernity developed in conjunction with the growth of Western colonialism and racial theorizing in the 18th- and 19th-centuries.
1 Approaching East Asian and Intercultural PhilosophyIn contrast to its pre-modern interpretation in the West, still evident in early modern philosophers such as G. W. Leibniz and Christian Wolff, the conception of philosophy in Western modernity has been typically restricted and deformed in ethnocentric and ideological definitions as an intrinsically Western and occidental tradition that contradicts its own ostensibly universal aspirations.1 This questionable understanding of philosophy as a mythical unified self-unfolding transmission from ancient Greece to Western modernity developed in conjunction with the growth of Western colonialism and racial theorizing in the 18th- and 19th-centuries.
