Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) developed based on ancient Chinese philosophy. Its characteristics include abstract theories, fuzzy concepts, subjective diagnostic methods and it lacks clarity, and rigor as well as vindication from modern sciences, which makes development of TCM remain stagnant. Thus, how to free the theory of TCM from heavy philosophy to achieve separation of medicine and p...

Li Zehou belongs to the most influential Chinese philosophers of our time. This paper will present a critical introduction his theory regarding consolidation specific Confucian system kinship relations, which for him forms crucial foundation traditional social order. In Confucianism, inter-familial relations form basis system, in interpersonal are utmost importance and therefore denotes as “rel...

http://journals.cambridge.org/asp Arabic Sciences and Philosophy (ASP) is an international journal devoted to the Arabic sciences, mathematics and philosophy in the world of Islam between the eighth and eighteenth centuries, in a cross-cultural context. In 2009, the journal extended its scope to include important papers on scientific modernization from the nineteenth century in the Islamic worl...