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Threefold philosophy and east–west sytheticism: reexaminations of Li Zehou’s humanistic thought

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In relation to other living philosophers, Li Zehou has been one of the most creative as well as the most controversial in contemporary China. Li advocates a multilevel, multiangle, and multidirectional methodology. For him, there is only one objective truth, but we might question it and be as close as possible to it by applying various approaches. He thinks that the most important of his moral duties is to use a real sense of beauty to search the truth of life and to develop the goodness of human beings. This paper reexamines Li’s East–West syntheticism (integrationism) in three aspects: (1) “Threefold Philosophy”; (2) “Post-Marxist Anthropological Ontology”; and (3) “Transformation and Reconceptualization of Confucianism”.

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  1. Quoted from “Li Zehou, The Confucian World.” In https://web.archive.org/web/20100530093301/http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Academics/Anniversary/Participants/Li.htm.

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Ding, J.Z. Threefold philosophy and east–west sytheticism: reexaminations of Li Zehou’s humanistic thought. Int. Commun. Chin. Cult 7, 557–579 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40636-020-00198-7

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