“Affairs” and the Actual World

Contemporary Chinese Thought 52 (3):137-165 (2021)
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The actual world, which surpasses the original state of being, consists in “affairs”. Affairs can be understood as human activity and its outcomes. From the perspective of an abstract metaphy...

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