英文摘要
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Objective: This article attempts to read the East and the West through the concepts of ”propensity” and ”form” in order to establish a trans-cultural dialogue between Eastern wisdom and Western philosophy and thus to enhance their mutual understanding. Method: The unique and distinguished studies of contemporary French philosopher and sinologist Francois Jullien will be taken as a point of departure to sample and highlight discourses on the differentiation of wisdom and philosophy in order to construct a platform for trans-cultural dialogue. Conclusion: The dialogic exchange between the Eastern wisdom and the Western philosophy leads neither to cultural homogeneity nor hegemony, but to mutual understanding and improvement. From the viewpoints of ”propensity” and ”form”, which are deeply embedded in their separate traditions of thinking, the East holds onto the dynamic open Whole as expression of wisdom to highlight the process of continuous transformation, while the West emphasizes the philosophical concepts of rational and logical knowledge to foreground the subject-object relationship and to analyze the proposition in a clear and precise way. Only through a dialogic exchange of the East-West and the wisdomphilosophy can the differentiation and distanciation in-between these two be productively mapped out and a multiple, connective, creative thinking be successfully initiated.
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