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Ren ( 仁) Humanist Ethics and Semiotics in the Future
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Youzheng Li
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April 26, 2014
Abstract
The term “semiotics” is better used as a more desirable approach for promoting the modernization of global humanities. In place of a mere study of signs a new semiotics should be related to the institutionalized and institutionalizing mechanism of semantic production and communicative constitution with respect to the entire social and human sciences. For the sake of attaining this correct scientific goal semiotics should be linked with an ethics of subjectivity. Both Husserl and Wang Yangming, with different styles, provide us with the model of ethical practice that can make the semiotic scholar become spiritually capable of insisting on scientific truth against the prevailing scholarly utilitarianism caused by present-day commercialized globalization.
Keywords : new definition of semiotics; 4-typology of rationality; Chinese humanist ethics; ethical subjectivity; modernization of the humanities
Published Online: 2014-4-26
Published in Print: 2013-6-1
© 2014 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Keywords for this article
new definition of semiotics;
4-typology of rationality;
Chinese humanist ethics;
ethical subjectivity;
modernization of the humanities
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