The Differences Between Chinese and Western Concepts of Nature and the Trend Toward Their Convergence

Abstract

On humankind's great and endless road toward a modern civilization, all nations of the world have become relatively estranged from each other and remained within their own unique environments. As a result, there are great differences among their modes of thinking. Their ideas on culture are also quite disparate, bringing about unceasingly, generation after generation, wide differences in their national spirit. As for today, the people of China are only now facing modernization, the world, and the future with a vision like a torch. How can the essence of the nations of the world be melted into one pot, creating a brand-new one-world civilization? This is the mission the times have bestowed upon us, though it definitely cannot be achieved overnight. I believe that first we must use present-day ideology to examine the differences, analyze, judge, and mutually utilize and copy the traditional cultures of China and the West. By doing so, the areas where Chinese and Western culture integrate and converge can be...