Introduction

Xinzhong Yao

pp. 1-4

in: Xinzhong Yao (ed), Reconceptualizing Confucian philosophy in the 21st century, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Abstract

Philosophy, in a sense, is an intellectual activity by which matters of great concern for humans are conceptualised. Queries about the origin of the world and life, curiosities concerning how things can be known, and imaginations for what humans can become are all distilled into linguistically tangible ideas meaningful to our minds, which become the core of what we call metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic, religion, etc.