To Understand Difference from Writing Mode
- Available Online: 2019-12-01
Abstract: In what sense could one attribute the specialty of Chinese philosophy to the particularities of Chinese as a language? How should one clarify or elaborate the particularities of Chinese? We attempt to demonstrate, we could not agree with either the linguistic determinism in the comparative research with an intercultural context, or interpretation on the specialty of Chinese philosophy through the fragmental analysis. The comparative linguistic analysis framework applied in the intercultural philosophical comparation is not impeccable, for its theoretical source from the Western academia and not tolerant to the mode of philosophical construction. Writing manifests the semantic mode of Chinese characters and words on the one hand, provides the basis of the composition and readings of Chinese thoughts, on the other. The understanding of the characteristics of Chinese as a linguistic medium of philosophical reasoning should begin with the writing mode, which surly is not a fixed system of signs and grammatical rules, but an expressive and communicative process through the involvement of subjects. Writing, as a continuous rational practice, demonstrates the specialty of Chinese philosophy, which leads us to be aware that the comparative philosophical research of inter-lingual context should be delivered from the writing mode as process of thinking.