Is logos a proper noun? Or, is Aristotelian Logic translatable into Chinese?
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by Yijing Zhang
Radical Philosophy 2.04 (Spring 2019)
Translated by Sophie Eager
During Jacques Derrida’s visit to China in 2001, he held a meeting with the Chinese philosopher Wang Yuanhua. [1]) Derrida opened their dialogue with a sentence that had the effect, no doubt involuntary, of aggravating his interlocutor and all of those Chinese listeners present: ‘China doesn’t have philosophy, but/only thought [中国没有哲学, 但/只有思想, Zhongguo meiyou zhexue dan/zhi you lixiang]‘.