Chinese Philosophical Viewpoints on the Natural and Humanistic Conditions of Artistic Achievement in the Italian Renaissance and Its Contemporary Implication
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 disciplinaries. It intends to explore the issue in the Italian Renaissance but not only
limited in that golden age—how could the artistic, cultural achievement in
an agebe possible?To explore this,issues
could easily fall into describing social phenomena by using social
scientific terms. When using descriptive language 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 interdisciplinary approach to combine the geopolitics, macro-history,and cultural history
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