Abstract:
Chinese ancient theory of knowledge acquisition was actually its cognitive thought and theory. The general orientation of Chinese ancient philosophy was the characteristic conception of “man as an integral part of nature”, which meant practically the one source both for theory and for practice, equivalence between theory and practice, theory in practice, theory equivalent to practice and whatever. This character of Chinese ancient philosophy presented itself in the theory of knowledge acquisition, forming the integrity, subjectivity, intuition and volition of its thinking. These characteristics of Chinese ancient philosophy, however, have both advantages and disadvantages in meaning and value. For example, the real integrity of thinking cannot play a greater role unless it is combined with analytic mode of subjective and objective thinking.
