ABSTRACT
This chapter—the last treatise in the study—as devoted to the Factors of Conduct Elaborated by Modern Chinese Thinkers, attempts to show how the problem-solving individual takes the point of view through his frame of mind, which has been moulded by his social environment, intellectual background, and personal career. One and all, eminent Chinese thinkers in the modern period (A.d. 960–1912) had a common aim in view—that is, the synthetic reconstruction of all channels of indigenous thought as relieved against ideas and ideals imported from abroad. In the light of national dangers due to the increasing contact and conflict between the Chinese and their surrounding peoples, they all cherished the same social frame of mind to create a consistent system of teachings in order that the social order and cultural unity of their countrymen might be consolidated. Nevertheless, each thinker’s frame of mind was so much coloured with his knowledge and experience acquired from his age that he had to take a unique approach to the same problem and arrive at a conclusion peculiar to it.
