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People wishing to dismiss this should look up Wang Huning. It is (as far as I can tell as a non-Chinese person relying on translations and secondary sources),

People wishing to dismiss this should look up Wang Huning. It is (as far as I can tell as a non-Chinese person relying on translations and secondary sources), a good summary of his thought. My trouble with this view, and its Western equivalents, is that viewing religion (religio, that which binds) as something “good for the commoners,” while true in its own way, is also a religion’s undoing. When the primary perceived value of a religion becomes its visible benefits, it is not long before it becomes possible to dismiss it as a mere instrument of power, rather than a transcendent reality. As a Christian, I have no problem recognizing that this has happened to Christianity numerous times in its history, and we are suffering a particularly severe bout of it today in the West. Renewal requires reconnection (religio) with the infinite, and cannot be achieved by political will alone.

sudosysgen 5y ago
It is only a simile of the thought of Wang Huning and the rest of the Politburo. If you take Hunings' "America against America", you will see that the diagnosis for what he calls "Cultural Nihilism" (see also the CCP notion of "historical nihilism") is ultimately rooted in not much more than the orthodox concept of alienation from the economic dimension. Hence his opposition to liberalization, moreso in the economic than social sense. He doesn't impune the younger westerners from turning away from Religion or said broadly Tradition, but from the intellectual tradition of Europe, that is to be said, the broad current of the Enlightenment and what followed from it. Indeed you should read Huning's impunement of liberalism as a political economy as broadly similar to Marx, with the exception that instead of Marx's general reliance on the European tradition for ethics, even appropriating the criticism of the Sophists on the basis of character, Huning would rather blend them with the Chinese tradition.
- huetius 5y ago
  I will do that, thank you.

sudosysgen 5y ago

It is only a simile of the thought of Wang Huning and the rest of the Politburo. If you take Hunings' "America against America", you will see that the diagnosis for what he calls "Cultural Nihilism" (see also the CCP notion of "historical nihilism") is ultimately rooted in not much more than the orthodox concept of alienation from the economic dimension. Hence his opposition to liberalization, moreso in the economic than social sense. He doesn't impune the younger westerners from turning away from Religion or said broadly Tradition, but from the intellectual tradition of Europe, that is to be said, the broad current of the Enlightenment and what followed from it. Indeed you should read Huning's impunement of liberalism as a political economy as broadly similar to Marx, with the exception that instead of Marx's general reliance on the European tradition for ethics, even appropriating the criticism of the Sophists on the basis of character, Huning would rather blend them with the Chinese tradition.

huetius 5y ago
I will do that, thank you.