This book argues that a general understanding of traditional Chinese philosophy can be achieved
by a concise elaboration of its truth goodness and beauty that goodness and beauty in Chinese
philosophy combined with the integration of man and heaven knowledge and practice scenery
and feeling reflect a pursuit of an ideal goal in traditional Chinese philosophy characterized
by the thought mode uniting man and nature.This book also discusses the anti-traditionalism of
the May Fourth Movement explaining that the true value of sagacity theory in traditional
Chinese philosophy especially in Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties lies in its
insights into universal life. In addition existing ideas issues terminologies concepts and
logic of Chinese philosophical thought were actually shaped by Western philosophy. It is
necessary to be alienated from traditional status for the creation of a viable Chinese
philosophy. Modern Chinese philosophy in the 1930s and 1940s was comprised of scholarly work
that characteristically continued rather than followed the traditional discourse of Chinese
philosophy. That is to say in the process of studying and adapting Western philosophy Chinese
philosophers transformed Chinese philosophy from traditional to modern.In the end of the book
the author puts forward the idea of a New Axial Age. He emphasizes that the rejuvenation of
Chinese culture we endeavor to pursue has to be deeply rooted in our mainstream culture with
universal values incorporating cultures of other nations especially the cultural essence of
the West.
