On Human Action and Practical Wisdom

In On Human Actionand Practical Wisdom, Yang Guorong offers a description of his “concretemetaphysics.” This system seeks to overcome traditional metaphysical problemsby providing a concrete basis - which serves as both the starting point and thefinal determining factor - for metaphysics. Yang gives a discussion of wisdomand practical action that begins in our everyday activities and socialrelationships, is extended to form universal principles, and finally refersback to actual situations for determining appropriateness.
Based on hisunification of ontology, epistemology and axiology, Yang thus attempts toovercome the one-sided understanding of action in modern Western philosophy,targeting in particular the excessively linguistic, logical, and abstract focusfound in the American analytic tradition.