Focusing on the fundamental differences between Chinese and Western philosophies… After feud with the government during the Tiananmen incident,
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(Beijing = Yonhap News) Correspondent Cho Jun-hyeong = Chinese media, including the Shining News, reported on the 3rd that the philosopher and aesthetician Li Zehou (李澤厚), who has been evaluated as a giant in the world of Chinese thought, has passed away.
Li Zhao Lin, a disciple of Li Zhao Lin, said that he died at the age of 91 in Colorado, USA on the 2nd (local time).
According to the Shiningbo, the deceased was born in Hunan Province in 1930 and graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Beijing University in 1954.
In the midst of the Cultural Revolution that lasted for 10 years from 1966 to 1976, the deceased, who was sent to Henan Province, was sent to the countryside to engage in labor. In the midst of the new wind of
The deceased started writing ‘Theory on the History of Chinese Modern History’ in 1979, and in 1985, he expanded his area of interest to ancient times and published ‘Theory on the History of Ancient Chinese History’. Two years later, he published ‘The History of Contemporary Chinese Thoughts’, completing the trilogy of ‘Li Zhehou’s History of Chinese Thoughts’.
The deceased argues that a new way out of Western thought should be found in Chinese traditions such as Confucianism, and it is evaluated that he deeply thought about the fundamental differences between Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy.
His discord with the Chinese government and the Communist Party during the 1989 Tiananmen incident is widely known.
The deceased was designated as a demonstration teacher by the authorities for signing a petition demanding that students not ignore the demonstrations demanding democracy and listen to them. As a result, his books were at one time a ‘forbidden book’ and were criticized by the government and fellow writers.
Eventually, the deceased left for the United States and spent the rest of his life researching and teaching at the University of Colorado.
A lifetime member of the Paris International Philosophy Institute and an honorary doctorate in humanities at the University of Colorado, USA, the deceased also worked as a guest professor at the University of Tübingen in Germany, the University of Michigan, and the University of Wisconsin.
In addition to the trilogy on the history of Chinese thought, his representative books include ‘The History of Beauty’, ‘Theory on the Body of History’, and ‘Critique of Critical Philosophy’.
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