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What Chinese People Lack Author: Zhou Guoping Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
What Chinese People Lack Author: Zhou Guoping Publisher: Shanghai People's Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is another blockbuster work by the famous scholar and writer Zhou Guoping after "Nietzsche: At the Turning Point of the Century". It took nearly 20 years from conception to completion.
The author has conducted an in-depth and detailed analysis of Yan Fu and Wang Guowei, two of the most representative figures in the history of modern Chinese thought. The author believes that as the first person to introduce British philosophy, Yan Fu tried to make the Chinese people accept liberalism, which laid the foundation for a society ruled by law, emphasized national quality, and advocated science and patriotism. However, due to the constraints of traditional Chinese Confucianism and the strong desire to seek prosperity, it evolved into a simplified and practical social evolutionism; Wang Guowei was the first person to introduce German philosophy, and tried to make the Chinese people accept metaphysics that seeks and establishes faith for life, but found that no one applauded, and finally plunged into a pile of old papers. By combing through the ideological context and mental journey of the two sages, the author pointed out the two major deficiencies of the Chinese people: the rule of law and faith, which is thought-provoking. Careful readers can read from it the deep concern for China's current reality.
The word "freedom" is something that the sages and wise men throughout Chinese history have always feared, but it has never been established as a teaching.
——Yan Fu
Material civilization, if acquired from other countries, can be achieved in just a few decades; but spiritual interests, on the other hand, cannot be achieved without the cultivation of thousands of years or the emergence of one or two geniuses.
——Wang Guowei
About the Author · · · · · ·
Zhou Guoping, a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, is a famous contemporary scholar and writer, and one of the famous scholars in China who studies Nietzsche. He was born in Shanghai in 1945, graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University in 1967, and graduated from the Department of Philosophy of the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1981. His works have a wide readership and social influence. He has written academic works such as "Nietzsche: At the Turning Point of the Century", "Nietzsche and Metaphysics", and "50 Keywords in Life", collections of random thoughts such as "Man and Eternity", "Paper Scraps in the Wind", "Fragments and Short Chapters", "Life Philosophy Records", and "Zhou Guoping's Humanities Lectures", collections of prose such as "The Distance of Watching", "Each Pilgrimage Road", "Quiet", "Kindness, Richness, and Nobility", and poetry collections such as "Sad Desire", documentary works such as "Niuniu: Notes of a Father", "Years and Temperament - My Spiritual Autobiography", "Occasional Travels", and "Baby, Baby", and translated works such as "Selected Works of Nietzsche's Aesthetics", "Nietzsche's Poems", and "The Twilight of Idols".
