Author(s)

Xinmin Gao¹, Yu Zhang², Guanqi He^3*

¹Institute of Mind and Cognition, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
²School of Foreign Languages, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
³Research Center for Marxist Theory and Regional Practice, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, China.

Most scholars believe that western philosophy of mind is endowed with the truth-seeking goal in its investigation of the nature of the mind, whereas Chinese philosophy of mind aims at the value-seeking objective through its endeavors to the interpretation of the mind’s function to human being’s becoming saints. However, we insist that, besides the value-seeking tendency, the Chinese philosophy of mind also demonstrates its truth-seeking objective. This thesis reveals and reconstructs the focus questions, content and features of the truth-seeking Chinese philosophy of mind by means of looking into the soul concept, mind-body theory, psychological phenomenology and psychosemantics in Chinese philosophy.

Mind, The Meta-Question, Psychological Phenomenology, Mind-Body Problem, Ontology of Mind, Psychosemantics

Gao, X. , Zhang, Y. and He, G. (2023) The Truth-Seeking Objective of Chinese Philosophy of Mind. Open Journal of Philosophy, 13, 195-209. doi: 10.4236/ojpp.2023.132013.