Feng Youlan

Feng Youlan (; also: Fung Yu-Lan; 1895–1990) was a Chinese philosopher who was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy.

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Feng Youlan was born on 4 December 1895 in Tanghe, Henan Province, China, to a middle-class family. He studied philosophy at Shanghai University, then at Beijing University where he was able study Western philosophy and logic as well as Chinese philosophy.

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Upon his graduation in 1918 he travelled to the United States, where he studied at Columbia University on a Boxer Indemnity grant. There he met, among many philosophers who were to influence his thought and career, John Dewey, the pragmatist, who became his teacher. Feng gained his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1925, though he spent the last two years working on his thesis (A Comparative Study of Life Ideals) back in China.

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