Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2015, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (5): 9-15.doi: 10.16382/j.cnki.1000-5579.2015.05.002

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Spiritual Freedom: The Source of FENG Qi’s Philosophical Creation

CHEN Wei-Ping   

  • Online:2015-09-15 Published:2015-11-01
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Abstract: FENG Qi takes spiritual freedom as the source of his philosophical creation at two levels. First, spiritual freedom means to adhere to the chosen philosophical approaches. In other words, spiritual freedom is in accordance with responding to current issues, maintaining independent personality, and treating Marxism creatively. Second, spiritual freedom means to go into and come out of previous philosophical traditions freely through unifying “passing” and “surpassing” in terms of the relationship between research subject and object, unifying “following” and “comparing” in treating the traditions of western and Chinese philosophy, and combining “studying the present” and “speaking of the ancient” in dealing with current and ancient philosophical traditions. With spiritual freedom as its source, philosophical creation becomes personalized.