Pursuing Spirituality and Wisdom in Cultural Understanding——A Transcendental Self-consciousness in Fei Xiaotong's Thought in His Later Years
In his later years,in a dialogue with his junior colleagues on February 7,1999,Fei Xiaotong put forward the idea of how there could be a transcendent self-awareness presence in academic research,as a warning against the tendency of the kind of social science research in China that has little depth of thought and leads to excessive planarization of thought.This is a transcendent consciousness in the face of changes in the world.In this regard,he emphasized the need to"brain to keep up",to have a sense of self-awareness,and to learn a methodology for building out.To achieve this,we need to transcend the existing boundaries that have been formed and set,and achieve new creations based on reflection.Fei Xiaotong attempts to lead the junior generation of researchers to re-examine the symbolic significance of achieving spiritual communication among the population,and pursue the true existence of transcendent spirit and wisdom.This belongs to the symbolism possessed by humans and the expression of meaning based on symbolism,reflecting a kind of human comprehension ability,which is intertwined with the existence of"spirit"and"wisdom"stored in the human brain,and the existence of"spirit"and"wisdom"itself creates and reflects the occurrence of human comprehension.This is a kind of transcendent consciousness that the junior generation of social science researchers need to have in the face of the new development pattern of the world.
Fei Xiaotong's Thought in His Later YearsDialogueTranscendent Self-AwarenessCultural UnderstandingSpirituality and Wisdom