Fang Dongmei (1899-1977) is among the most influential Chinese philosophers who lived and worked in Taiwan during the second half of the 20th century. The present article aims to clarify his view on the basic nature of the human Self.
This assessment is more multifaceted than it seems at a first glimpse, for Fang's philosophy is also more complex than it seems.
As a member of the so-called neo-conservative streams of thought, he criticized the Western-type modernization and aimed to revive the holistic onto-episte-mology of classical Confucianism.
On the other hand, he highlighted the importance of its basic paradigm which underlay the Confucian discourses from their very beginning, i.e. since the Book of Changes, namely the principle of creative creativity (shengshengbuxi 生 生不息). The alleged contradiction between his advocating of holism and creativity, has been reflected in the apparent dichotomy between the social and relational essence of the Confucian Moral Self on the one side, and individual uniqueness on the other. The paper aims to show that both seeming contradictions are actually parts of the same theoretical principle defining the complementary interactions of binary oppositions.
Modernizacija filozofije ustvarjalne ustvarjalnosti: Fang Dongmeijeva združitev holizma in individualnosti Izvleček Fang Dongmei (1899-1977) sodi med najvplivnejše kitajske filozofe, ki so v drugi polo-vici 20. stoletja živeli in delali na Tajvanu. Ta članek obravnava njegov pogled na osnovno naravo človeškega sebstva. Ta naloga je bolj zapletena, kot se kaže na prvi pogled, tako kot 1
The paper is a part of the ongoing project "Modern and Contemporary Taiwanese philosophy" (Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation RG004-U-17) and of the research program Asian Languages and Cultures (ARRS P6-0243).
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