ABSTRACT
One of the most urgent and important intellectual tasks we are currently facing is the spiritual reconstruction of contemporary China. It is this predicament as a universal loss that brings before thought the task of spiritual reconstruction. Generally speaking, spiritual construction is cultural construction, or more precisely, it is the backbone of cultural construction. Culture in its narrow sense means spiritual culture and in its broad sense comprehends the spiritual realm as a part of it—a dominant or pivotal part that can be understood as “a general illumination Beleuchtung. In other words, it can only obtain its basic determinations by following the possibilities arising from the historic practice of contemporary China. In fact, with reference to the development of contemporary China, the distinction of the three intellectual resources-Chinese philosophy, Western philosophy, and Marxist philosophy-has always been intrinsically contained in the necessity of their synthesis.
