Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No. 4, 2022

Evolution and Integration of the Mind-Body Problem in German and French Philosophy

(Abstract)

Ma Yinghui

Modern German and French philosophers explore the mind-body problem in three ways. Traditional mind-body dualism is reduced to a correlation between pure consciousness and sense perception, and this forms the basis of the heated confrontation among theories of being and existence. Mind-body existence ultimately builds upon the primitive incarnation of the transcendentalists. Although the mind-body relationship is constantly reconstructed and re-founded at the primitive level of experience and existence, the fact that phenomenology and symbolic hermeneutics presuppose formalization and identity means that they overlook the infinity of natural mind-body generation and cease from the start to question the premise of the dialectical state of finitude. Ultimately, they find themselves in a dilemma in which formalized agency devours natural existence. It is only through the original unity of human nature and the natural existence that surrounds them that people can truly understand the abstraction of nature and the mind-body existence it determines.