Zhang Dongsun is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Zhang Dongsun as Chinese philosopher (1886-1973).
Zhang Dongsun was born at Hangzhou in 1886. His recorded nationality is China. He studied at University of Tokyo and Toyo University.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Peking University and Tsinghua University.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from China matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Zhang Dongsun died in 1973, aged 87. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Held posts at Peking University and Tsinghua University
- Fields: philosophy
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