Study on Life Meaning in Oriental and Western Philosophy

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10.2991/assehr.k.200316.136How to use a DOI?

Keywords

nihilism, deficiency Confucius, Heidegger

Abstract

From the view of hermeneutics, the meaning of the text is not fixed. It will always be infinitely open to the authors and interpreters with the changing meaning the co-creation of these authors and interpreters. The phenomenological slogan is “back to the things themselves”. Then we can put aside the traditional authoritative interpretation of the classical texts and go back to the text itself directly. The deficiency is the key to understanding the original sin, but it is not about the ethical and legal evil, although this evil is attributable to humanity’s deficiency. The deficiency means humans have an inherent or innate finiteness. People cannot be omniscient; all people have to die eventually and suffer diseases, pains or poverty etc. It is human’s fate. Young people are often troubled by nihilism and all Chinese and western philosophy give answers to this question.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Si Chen
AU  - Zhiyong Fu
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/19
TI  - Study on Life Meaning in Oriental and Western Philosophy
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 622
EP  - 627
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200316.136
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200316.136
ID  - Chen2020
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