The “New Culture” From a Modern Perspective /

• Main Authors: Sun, Weiping (Author), Zhang, Mingcang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2015.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy of Man.

Contemporary China, in an era of globalization and in the midst of transition, now faces both great opportunities and unprecedented challenges. People are more and more becoming “economic man,” “technological man” and “one-dimensional man,” and are increasingly losing the virtue, dignity and beauty...

Table of Contents:

• The Rationalization of Economic Growth: Critique of Economic Activities and Human Existence
• The Revolution of Knowledge Value：Ethical Considerations in the New Economic Age
• "Human Beings Are Born Political Animals": Official Rank Orientation, Power Control and Political Democratization
• The Rule of Man and the Rule of Law: the Safeguard of Law and Human Rights
• The Culturalization of Humans by Morality: Morality and Human Cultivation and Improvement
• Knowledge Is Power: Science and the Elevation of Humans
• Technology from the Humanistic Perspective: the Social and Cultural Results of the Technological Development
• The Anxiety of Growing Up: Education and Human Cultivation and Development
• The Illusionary Sun: Religion, Human Life and Cultural Reconstruction
• The Protection of Human Environment: the Ecological Environment and Human Subsistent Development.