This scarcity of true modern
philosophers, which really means the end of philosophy, this syndicate, corresponds
with the advent of Eastern thought that always preferred scholasticism and
historical analysis over speculative system-building. In his essay
'Philosophers versus Thinkers' the great linguistic sage of Peking University,
Ji Xianlin, observed that not a single European philosophical system has stood
against time, while the works of historians and scholars present us with a more
realistic empiricism and useful knowledge.
This is the Confucian way of New Europe: A Lofty pragmatism, the Love for learning, the Return of the shengren , and a New humanism.
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