Chinese Philosophical Viewpoints on the Natural and Humanistic Conditions of Artistic Achievement in the Italian Renaissance and Its Contemporary Implication ()
ABSTRACT
This paper aims at reflecting on our life in contemporary predicament of
living in “iron cage” and with “value-fragmentation” proposed from Max Weber
through exploiting Chinese philosophical thoughts to synthesize the contribution
from different disciplinaries. It intends to explore the issue in the Italian Renaissance but not only
limited in that golden age—how could the artistic, cultural achievement in
an age be possible? To explore this, issues
could easily fall into describing social phenomena by using social
scientific terms. When using descriptive language to depict social
phenomena, we may find out lots of reasons from a higgledy-piggledy collection
of phenomena fragments and social scientists try their best to give reasonable
explanations for those phenomena. They have given lots of significant
contributions through their research approach. However, in this paper, it aims
to discover this issue through interdisciplinary approach to combine the geopolitics, macro-history, and cultural history as well as finally synthesize those perspectives and
give more comprehensive picture mapped up by means of Chinese pre-Qin
Daoist philosophy and pre-Qin Confucianism. In terms of geopolitics
and macro history, this paper firstly attempts to explore how natural
environment conditioned and affected economic development and political stability in Renaissance Venice and Florentine. In
addition, it discusses whether patronage in Renaissance and Chinese Song Dynasty was merely to show off wealth or not? Furthermore,
it introduces pre-Qin Confucianism to enlarge the philosophical aspect on those
two questions. In Conclusion, it
concludes on how pre-Qin Confucianism maps together with pre-Qin Daoism and how
we can benefit from the synthetic perspectives of macro history,
geopolitics, social science, and that of traditional Chinese philosophy to be
in face of nowadays dilemma.
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Zhang, V. (2020) Chinese Philosophical Viewpoints on the Natural and Humanistic Conditions of Artistic Achievement in the Italian Renaissance and Its Contemporary Implication.
Open Journal of Philosophy,
10, 9-23. doi:
10.4236/ojpp.2020.101002.