In uncovering the mechanisms of teaching critical thinking in China,scholars tend to ignore the re-quirement of rational thinking in teaching. Based on the discussion of rational presuppositions of critical thinking i...In uncovering the mechanisms of teaching critical thinking in China,scholars tend to ignore the re-quirement of rational thinking in teaching. Based on the discussion of rational presuppositions of critical thinking in Western cultures, this article argues that, while Western critical thinking presets a kind of rationality which is biased to-wards descriptive logic rather than prescriptive logic, the virtue - centered traditional Chinese culture cultivates a gener-al habit of using methods of prescriptive logic. Descriptive logic accounts for “how to get” true judgments while pre- scriprive logic aims at explaining “why a true judgment is true”. Critical thinking education in China should pay more attention to the role descriptive logic plays. The fact that the new - media infomiarion disseminarion is deepening in- tercultiiral communication makes it necessary to implement critical thinking education in China,but the implementa-tion should be focused on cultivating the students* ability to organize discourse in a logical way.展开更多
1.Introduction In the previous discussion on the logic of thinking of Zhou Yi,we have attempted to examine the evolution from the eight diagrams to the sixty-four hexagrams,in the hope of fi nding out what it tries to...1.Introduction In the previous discussion on the logic of thinking of Zhou Yi,we have attempted to examine the evolution from the eight diagrams to the sixty-four hexagrams,in the hope of fi nding out what it tries to convey to its readers and how it achieves its aim.1Our conclusion is:Zhou Yi set up a thinking model which deeply infl uenced the Chinese traditional culture and we can see its infl uences in today’s China.Moreover,the interpretations of the symbolic diagrams provided展开更多
文摘In uncovering the mechanisms of teaching critical thinking in China,scholars tend to ignore the re-quirement of rational thinking in teaching. Based on the discussion of rational presuppositions of critical thinking in Western cultures, this article argues that, while Western critical thinking presets a kind of rationality which is biased to-wards descriptive logic rather than prescriptive logic, the virtue - centered traditional Chinese culture cultivates a gener-al habit of using methods of prescriptive logic. Descriptive logic accounts for “how to get” true judgments while pre- scriprive logic aims at explaining “why a true judgment is true”. Critical thinking education in China should pay more attention to the role descriptive logic plays. The fact that the new - media infomiarion disseminarion is deepening in- tercultiiral communication makes it necessary to implement critical thinking education in China,but the implementa-tion should be focused on cultivating the students* ability to organize discourse in a logical way.
文摘1.Introduction In the previous discussion on the logic of thinking of Zhou Yi,we have attempted to examine the evolution from the eight diagrams to the sixty-four hexagrams,in the hope of fi nding out what it tries to convey to its readers and how it achieves its aim.1Our conclusion is:Zhou Yi set up a thinking model which deeply infl uenced the Chinese traditional culture and we can see its infl uences in today’s China.Moreover,the interpretations of the symbolic diagrams provided
