This collection includes three of the author's celebrated Symposium Papers presented to the East-West Philosophers' Conferences held at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu (1964, 1969, 1972);his Address to The Second World Congress of Poets, Taipei (1973); some of his lectures delivered at American higher educational institutes at the invitation of the United States State Department duringthe early sixties. Also included are some of his popular,lesstechnical essays, speeches, interviews, and articles on a variety of topics: such as on comparative religion, crosscultural problems, East and West views of art and beauty, and a world philosophical assemblage, etc., It thus reveals variegated facets of the author as a “full personality,”so to speak, his manysidedness and mellowness, his profound sympathy and concern with human affairs, his great vision and insights, So far,thisis the most complete edition of Professor Fang's essays and speeches available in the English language.
作者簡介：
方東美教授（1899-1977），年輕時留美喜好實用主義哲學，後來深為柏拉圖吸引熱愛希臘哲學。抗戰時期效，他曾效法德哲菲希德告德意志同胞書，巡迴演講以激勵民心士氣；遷臺後，受印哲拉達克里希南影響，集中心力以英文論述中國哲學。
方東美教授，相信中西哲學文化、理想可以互補，曾經致力於比較希臘、近代歐洲、印度和中國的哲學與文化，可惜未能完成。
方東美教授，呼籲中國哲學回返原始儒家，並提倡宏揚《易》「生生而和諧」之旨，認為這才是最健康的生命情調。他的思想開闊，並不限於一家一派；回到古代中國哲學，也力主儒、道、墨三家思想之互補。
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