Introduction to the Special Theme ＂Ethics and Religion in East Asian and Intercultural Philosophy＂

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.

论儒家伦理对传统日常思维模式的双重影响

传统唯伦理性日常思维有其特定的内涵和基本特征,这是由儒家伦理规范对中国传统日常思维模式的双重影响所决定的。唯伦理性日常思维本身虽有其积极因素,但也存在不可忽视的负面效应,因此,应在批判反思的基础上对其进行全方位的现代转换。