The 181th “Hundreds Years of Exploration·the Famous Teachers Forum” activity was successfully held in the academic hall of No.1 teaching building on the 3rd floor at 9:30 a.m. of November 10, 2016. Professor Wang Qian from Dalian University of Technology delivered a wonderful lecture entitled “Viewing the modern value of Chinese philosophy from ‘Critical Effect’”, which is held by Li Hongwei, Vice Dean from School of Marxist. And the students from School of Marxist and School of Sociology attended the lecture.
At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Wang started with the stories of Hua Tuo and Pao Ding dissecting cattle, explained what are “Tao”, “Xiang”, “Yi”, “Pi”, and “Ji” in Chinese tradition, leaded to the concept of “Critical Effect”, and had an in-depth talk about the modern value of Chinese philosophy embodied: the integral grasp of the organic connections among things and the intuitive experience of the rationality of human practical activities. Professor Wang cited the classics and combined with our real life. He talked about “Zen”, “The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao”, “Invisible elephant” and the importance of opportunity in the Chinese tradition, expounding the plentiful traditional Chinese philosophical thoughts. Professor Wang showed that there are abundant and available thought resources in traditional Chinese philosophy, which can be formed into the universal ethical principles: ”Symbiosis”, “ harmony”, and “the Greater Self” after the creative transformation. Meanwhile, Professor Wang interacted with the audience on the scene and the students raised questions under active atmosphere.
The lecture by Professor Wang was simple but profound and vivid. He warned the students that we should establish Chinese philosophical way of thinking while studying western philosophy, and think more deeply about the problems of human. This rendered students have a further understanding and thinking about philosophy-related issues, and drew great inspiration about Chinese philosophical way of thinking for students.
