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The Meaning of Life

The Meaning of Life (II)

Roger Ames on a Chinese approach.

“Hey Mum, I became Chinese.”

The not infrequent and certainly highest compliment a Chinese colleague can pay an intimate Western associate is “Ni jiu shi yige Zhongguoren.” – “You are just like Chinese.” I think, in my case anyway, they may be right, at least in terms of my philosophical sensibilities.

In a recent issue of Philosophy Now, the editor Anja Steinbauer cited the great German philosopher, G.

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