This book, originally published in China in 2007 and the recipient of awards and acclaim, has resolved questions of value and inspired deep changes in the thinking of China's philosophical circles and has caused tremendous effect and lasting social impact.

Philosophers have gradually accepted axiology as one branch of philosophy. As a basic category belonging to axiology and philosophy, "value" is the general abstraction of concrete value formation in various fields including utility, ethics and appreciation of the beauty. The problem of value is essentially a problem of historical activities of practice in human society. The axiology based on the scientific practice view insists on the principle of unification between theory and practice, truth and value. In research of axiology, the relation between subjectivity and objectivity of values is a...

Philosophers have gradually accepted axiology as one branch of philosophy. As a basic category belonging to axiology and philosophy, "value" is the general abstraction of concrete value formation in various fields including utility, ethics and appreciation of the beauty. The problem of value is essentially a problem of historical activities of practice in human society. The axiology based on the scientific practice view insists on the principle of unification between theory and practice, truth and value. In research of axiology, the relation between subjectivity and objectivity of values is a...

This book, originally published in China in 2007 and the recipient of awards and acclaim, has resolved questions of value and inspired deep changes in the thinking of China's philosophical circles and has caused tremendous effect and lasting social impact.

This book is divided into three main parts: an introduction to theories of culture, a section on Chinese culture, and one on cultural construction.