On the Attitude Toward “Chinese Traditional Values” and “Western Modern Values”
Modern society, especially contemporary Chinese society, is marked by one outstanding predicament: a crisis of faith, that is, a loss of values. To say that values have been lost is entirely different from saying that values have become “pluralized.” The pluralization of values is a good thing, but the problem is that people’s values today are not richer or more varied; rather, they are confused, depleted, and full of blank spaces. In modern times, in the industrial era and even the information age, the earth has become smaller and smaller, yet the distance between people has become greater and greater; the number of species humans recognize is greater than at…
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