KNOWLEDGE AND THE HUMAN MIND: PHENOMENOLOGY AND OTHERS

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  • Xunwu Chen

Abstract

The brain produces the mind through cultivation. Thus, the structure of the mind is not a priori, but culturally developed. The logic, semantics, and conceptual framework of a mind are all cultivated. While feeling is a natural function of the mind, all feelings of a mind are concept-laden or concept-mediated. A person is educated to think better, to feel in a certain way, and to have a better taste; the mind educated and civilized is better than the mind uneducated and barbarian. The key here is that a knowing mind is a constructor and a constructing space, not merely a knower akin to a mirror or a camera in the process of knowing.

Front and back cover of the Journal of East West Thought Volume 8, Number 2, 2018

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2020-04-10

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2018): Summer 2018

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