Feng Qi’s philosophy is imbued with a rich poetic quality. First, Feng Qi claims that “reason is not a dry light”, which theoretically endows wisdom with concreteness and reason with poetic color. Second, the ideal personality he advocates, namely the ordinary free individual, is poetic sine it aims to integrate rational and irrational factors, unify cognition, emotions and will, and combine truth, goodness and beauty. Third, poetic feature can be found in his study of the history of philosophy. Different from the mainstream paradigm of the history of Chinese philosophy which focuses on epistemology or logical thinking, Feng Qi also pays attention to the aesthetic aspect of Chinese philosophy. He reveals the unity of art and philosophy and the dialectics of imaginal thinking in Chinese philosophy, especially the doctrine of expressing aspirations and that of aesthetic realm, which is characterized by the integration of reason, fact, and emotion, and elucidates. In addition, Feng Qi’s early literary and artistic experiences, as the source of his poetic temperament, permeates his lifelong philosophical thinking and writing, giving his philosophical works the poetic quality similar to Bai Juyi’s poetry, which is “understandable even to an old woman”. As a free-thinking poetic individual, Feng embodies the ordinary free personality in his own life.
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