This document discusses the different philosophies present in Hong Kong, including Chinese philosophy traditions like Confucianism, Buddhism, Legalism, and Taoism. It also discusses Anglo-American analytic philosophy which uses analysis of terms, and Continental/European philosophy which distinguishes propositions. Finally, it mentions comparative philosophy, which studies philosophies from various cultures and time periods. Hong Kong has carried the nickname "Pearl of the Orient" and became a special administrative region of China in 1997 under an agreement ensuring its autonomy.

1. Oriental
Philosophy in
Hongkong
Submitted By:
Samaniego, Gloria M.
Division of Malabon
Submitted To:
Dr. Mayor
Oriental Philosophy
( 8:00-9:30 )

2. “Hong Kong " is an
approximate
phonetic rendering of
the pronunciation of
the
spoken Cantonese or
Hakka name
( 香港 ), meaning
"Fragrant Harbour".

3. Hong Kong has
carried many nicknames:
the most famous among
those is the "Pearl of the
Orient", which reflected
the impressive night-view
of the city's light
decorations on the
skyscrapers along both
sides of the Victoria
Harbour.

4. Official languages:
Chinese
English
Cantonese

5. *HONGKONG
•occupied by the UK in 1941
•formally ceded by China the following
year
•became the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region (SAR) of the
People's Republic of China on 1 July
1997
•Pursuant to an agreement signed by
China and the UK on 19 December 1984
*In this agreement, China promised
that, under its "one country, two
systems" formula, China's socialist
economic system would not be imposed
on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong would
enjoy a "high degree of autonomy" in all
matters except foreign and defense
affairs for the subsequent 50 years.

6. HONGKONG
PHILOSOPHIES:
1. Chinese philosophy
2. Anglo-American (i.e., so-
called “analytic”)
philosophy
3. Continental/European
(what might be called
“synthetic”) philosophy
4. various attempts at
“comparative”
philosophy

7. 1. Chinese Philosophy:
A. Confucianism - It is a system of
moral, social, political, and quasi-
religious thought, whose influence also
spread to Korea & Japan. The major
Confucian concepts
include ren (humanity or
humaneness), zhengming (similar to the
concept of the Mandate of
Heaven), zhong (loyalty), xiao (filial
piety), and li (ritual). It introduced
the Golden Rule (essentially, treat
others as you would like to be treated),
the concept of Yin and Yang (two
opposing forces that are permanently in
conflict with each other, leading to
perpetual contradiction and change), the
idea of meritocracy, and of reconciling
opposites in order to arrive at some
middle ground combining the best of

8. B. Buddhism – a religion,
a practical philosophy and
arguably a psychology,
focusing on the teachings
of Buddha(Siddhartha
Gautama), who lived
in India from the mid-6th to the
early 5th Century B.C.
- focuses on ethics rather
than metaphysics
- integrated the ideas of
Confucianism, Taoism and
other indigenous philosophical
systems into itself.

9. C. Legalism -
a pragmatic
political
philosophy, whose
main motto is "set
clear strict laws, or
deliver harsh
punishment", and its
essential principle is
one
of jurisprudence .

10. D. Taoism- also written Daoism,
Taoism is a philosophy which later
also developed into
a religion. Tao literally means
"path" or "way", athough it more
often used as a meta-physical term
that describes the flow of the
universe, or the force behind the
natural order. The Three Jewels of
the Tao are compassion,
moderation, and humility. Taoist
thought focuses on wu wei ("non-
action"), spontaneity, humanism,
relativism, emptiness and the
strength of softness (or flexibility).
Nature and ancestor spirits are
common in popular Taoism.

11. 2. Anglo- American or Analytic
Philosophy
* the philosophic-
gnoseological analysis of the mod
es
of cognition which is characteristic
of classical philosophy and conne
cted
with the fundamentalproblems of
the relation of subject and object i
s
replaced, as a rule, by the
investigation of
specific scientific problems—
logical, logicolinguistic, semiotic, a
nd so on.

12. * a method of
approaching
philosophical
problems through
analysis of the terms
in which they are
expressed,
associated with
Anglo-American
philosophy of the
early 20th century.

13. 3. Continental/European
(what might be called
“synthetic”) philosophy
* a conceptual distinction, used
primarily in philosophy to
distinguish propositions (in
particular, statements that are
affirmative subject–predicate
judgments) into two types:
analytic propositions and
synthetic propositions.

14. Continental philosophy is a set
of 19th- and 20th-
centuryphilosophical traditions
from mainland Europe. This
sense of the term originated
among English-
speaking philosophers in the
second half of the 20th century,
who used it to refer to a range of
thinkers and traditions outside
the analytic movement.

15. 4. Comparative
Philosophy
- the study of
philosophies from
various cultures,
nations, or epochs.