“生生”具有创造性、过程性和生命性的三重基本内涵，但“生生”伦理与哲学试图以生生为本，就要直面三个相悖问题：首先，生生的“创造性”并非无中生有，而是“即无而有”；其次，生生的“过程性”并非仅是过程，而与“存有”互生；再次，生生的“生命力”不只天成其性，而重“人文化成”。中国伦理与哲学有着与“生生”之途不同的知行合一的“创生”之路。中国人的伦理是“做”出来的，它既不是“思”出来的，也不是“觉”出来的，它既不是来自理性的“理思”，也不是来自感性的“心性”，超越了所谓“知什么”与“知如何”之争，由始到终皆归践行。

“Generating” has three basic connotations, that is, creativity, process and vitality. However, if taking generating as its foundation, “generating” ethics and philosophy has to face three paradoxes: first, its creativity means creating something from something rather than nothing; second, its process is not merely a process but a process with being; third, its vitality stresses cultivation rather than nature. Chinese ethics and philosophy, characterized by “producing” through the unity of knowing and acting, is different from “generating”. Chinese ethics emphasizes “making” instead of “thinking” or “awakening”; it is neither from “rational thinking” of reason nor from perceptual “dispositions”. With its adherence to practice, it goes beyond the contention between “knowing-that” and “knowing-how”.