Modern Chinese philosophers have been trying to remove the feudal dirt on the one hand and refine and reflect the reasonable core of the spirit of the epoch and the nation with regard to the native ideological resources. Throughout the above attempt, Chinese philosophers continue to draw upon resources of Western philosophy, including Descartes and Hegel’s rationalism and its modern extension, namely, positivist philosophy, modern nonrationalism after Hegel and Marxist philosophy. Based human, epoch and national natures of philosophy, modern Chinese philosophers have naturally chosen a path of philosophic advancement of comprehensive innovations.

Chinese philosophy; Western philosophy; Marxist philosophy