%0 Journal Article
%T Chinese Philosophical Viewpoints on the Natural and Humanistic Conditions of Artistic Achievement in the Italian Renaissance and Its Contemporary Implication
%A Verena Xiwen Zhang
%J Open Journal of Philosophy
%P 9-23
%@ 2163-9442
%D 2020
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojpp.2020.101002
%X This paper aims at reflecting on our life in contemporary predicament of
living in ¡°iron cage¡± and with ¡°value-fragmentation¡± proposed from Max Weber
through exploiting Chinese philosophical thoughts to synthesize the contribution
from different <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">disciplinaries</span></span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">. It intends to explore the issue in the Italian Renaissance but not only
limited in that golden age¡ª</span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">how could the artistic, cultural achievement in
an age</span></b></span></span></span><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span></b></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">be possible?</span></b></span></span><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span></b></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">To explore this,</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">issues
could easily fall into describing </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">social phenomena</span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> by using social
scientific terms. When using </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">descriptive language</span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> to depict social
phenomena, we may find out lots of reasons from a higgledy-piggledy collection
of phenomena fragments and social scientists try their best to give reasonable
explanations for those phenomena. They have given lots of significant
contributions through their research approach. However, in this paper, it aims
to discover this issue through </span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">interdisciplinary approach</span></b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> to combine the</span><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> geopolitics, macro-history,</span></b></span></span></span><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span></b></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and cultural history</span></b></span></span><span><span><b><span style=\"font-family:;\" \"=\"\">
%K Italian Renaissance
%K Geopolitics
%K Macro-History
%K Venice
%K Florence
%K Pre-Qin Daoist Philosophy
%K Laozi
%K Pre-Qin Confucianism
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=97136