Filozoficko-environmentálna reflexia učenia starých Číňanov
Philosophical and Environmental reflection of learning ancient Chinese

Summary/Abstract: As with any culture, the Chinese one has also been developing in the process of continuous confrontation of humans with their surrounding environment. On the broader historical background these relations had determined the formation of the ancient Chinese worldview and the development of the relation between culture and nature within this framework. This very experience had become the foundation, which influenced the formation of later more or less coherent paradigms of thinking. Reflections on dynamic balance and “harmony” between humans and nature were preceded by the projects which had dramatically affected the environment at the time of their realisation and had to be disasters for ecosystems at those times. From our perspective, we have a tendency to ex post evaluate the state, which has been reached, which has been knowingly and purposefully maintained by tens of generations of Chinese, but we do not mention that also the Chinese had in the beginnings deeply embedded their thought structures in nature (which is usually a matter of criticism against the European culture and tradition).

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