Zhang Dongsun's Discussions Between Language And Relationship Of Chinese And Western Philosophy

Zhang Dongsun compared Chinese and the Western philosophy type difference in《Knowledge And Culture》from the language angle, the conclusion is that the Chinese philosophy is only the cosmology, but does not have the ontology (substance philosophy), only is the practical philosophy, but does not have the pure philosophy. He carries on the analysis from the language, the reason is because ancient Chinese lacks the subject or the subject and predicate are unclear so that causes no subject, thus also does not have the ontology, secondly, there are not obvious suffix changes in the Chinese language, but more importantly lacks the copula in the Chinese language. there has no the ontology, essenialism is equated to ontology. Afterwards the scholars gradually developed the ontology theory on his foundations, Mr. YuXuan meng proposed the ontology complete theory, it was about "is (Being)" and "is the theory which (beings)" between them, it is absolute universal,transdental theory , it was the Western traditional philosophy shape; But the Chinese philosophy is the life and the moral aspects philosophy, it is not about absolute principle philosophy shape. But these two different philosophy shapes have the same foundation in common that is human own survival conditions ,but they are different transdental ways .Zhang Dongsun compares Chinese and the Western philosophy difference from the language angle, founded the new comparison field for us, broke the traditional way of China and the West philosophy comparing, which took the text as the comparison method. He provided the important foundations for China and the West philosophy deep communication, therefore it has the extremely important theory significance.