Mou Zongsan | |
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 Mou teaching in Hong Kong in the 1960s | |
| Born | 12 June 1909[1]: Chronicle, p.2 |
| Died | 12 April 1995 (aged 85)[1]: Chronicle, p.95 |
| Alma mater | Peking University |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Chinese philosophy |
| School | New Confucianism |
Main interests | History of Chinese philosophy |
Notable ideas | Interpretation of Immanuel Kant's thought |
Mou Zongsan (Chinese: 牟宗三; pinyin: Móu Zōngsān; Wade–Giles: Mou Tsung-san; 12 June 1909 – 12 April 1995) was a Chinese philosopher and translator. He was born in Shandong province and graduated from Peking University. In 1949 he moved to Taiwan, and later Hong Kong, remaining outside of mainland China for the rest of his life. His thought was heavily influenced by Immanuel Kant, whose three Critiques he translated from English, possibly first,[2] into Chinese, and above all by Tiantai Buddhist philosophy.
Over the last 40 years of his life, Mou wrote histories of "Neo-Daoist," Confucian, and Buddhist philosophy (totaling six volumes) a group of constructive philosophic treatises, culminating in his 1985 work, On the Summum Bonum (Chinese: 圓善論; pinyin: yuanshan lun), in which he attempts to rectify the problems in Kant's system through a Confucian-based philosophy reworked with a set of concepts appropriated from Tiantai Buddhism.
In the People's Republic of China, Mou is especially famous for his cultural traditionalism and his defense of democracy as a traditional Chinese value.
- ^ a b Tsai Ren-hou (蔡仁厚) (2003). "Chronicle of Professor Mou Tsung-san's Life and Scholarship (〈牟宗三先生學思年譜〉)". Complete Works of Professor Mou Tsung-san, Vol. 32 (《牟宗三先生全集》第32冊). Taipei: Linking Publishing Company (聯經出版). ISBN 9570825510.
- ^ • Chan, Wing-Cheuk. "Mou Zongsan's Transformation Of Kant'S Philosophy." Journal of Chinese Philosophy 33.1 (2006): 125-39. Print.