Xinlixuework by Feng Youlan

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  • discussed in biography ( in Feng Youlan )

    In 1939 Feng set forth his own philosophical system in Xinlixue (“New Rational Philosophy”), in which he converted certain 12th-century neo-Confucian assertions about the world into formal logical concepts. These he dealt with in a systematic manner that was new to Chinese philosophy, which traditionally had largely used assertion and metaphor. In 1950, soon after the...

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