Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 5, 2023

 

Pluralist Philosophy and Interactive Change in the Life-World： From the Perspective of Civilization

(Abstract)

 

Sun Litian

 

Philosophy is the living soul of civilization. From the perspective of civilization, a form of civilization is the ontology and premise of a given philosophy, while a philosophical way of thinking is the theoretical consciousness of a given form of civilization and the soul of the whole civilization. If we regard pluralist philosophy based on the diversity of civilizations as the most refined and precious civilizational achievement of mankind, then pluralist philosophy has eternal value and significance. Taking the philosophical way of thinking based on pluralistic views as the theoretical consciousness of civilizations enables us to grasp the boundaries and meaning of philosophical dialogue in the exchange and communication of civilizations and their different life-worlds. Therefore, taking the construction of a human community with a shared future and a new form of human civilization as the basis of the real life-world, and the practical and civilizational way of thinking of Marxist philosophy as the main inner plane, we can use new concepts and new ways of thinking to enter the life-world through a sincere philosophical dialogue that will produce new civilizational concepts and new civilizational ways of behavior and thus change the world.