A Commentary on Zhang Shiying’s Returning Home:My Philosophical Life

Mr. Zhang Shiying is a famous Chinese philosopher and in his later years he advocates a new philosophy of of heaven and and all beings are related, which is not a simple response to the previous understanding of of heaven and man with a subject-object relationship but a kind of to a higher level of dialectics. Through a detailed study, Mr. Zhang gives his approval of subject philosophy and accepts some of its good elements and has his innovation and transcendence. Mr. Zhang not only advocates a noble spirit of all beings are an organic whole but also emphasizes human subjectivity and enterprising spirit. This is an inheritance of the fine tradition of modern Chinese philosophy constructed by Xiong Shili, Feng Youlan and Jin Yuelin. Mr Zhang has a good understanding of Chinese and Western civilizations and theories and has his innovation based on his understanding of the classics, a perfect unity of ethnicity and modernity. Mr. Zhang uses returning home as the summary of his philosophical life in this book, which is a truthful record of his spiritual return and philosophical transcendence and has much significance to the study of Chinese philosophy.