Tell me about your understanding of knowledge, meaning, affection and truth, goodness and beauty.

Wang Guowei said in On the Purpose of Education that spirit is divided into three parts: knowledge, emotion and will. There are three ideals of truth, beauty and goodness: the ideal of true knowledge, the ideal of beautiful feelings and the ideal of goodwill.

This is a summary of China thought by scholars. Their corresponding relationships with western disciplines are philosophy, logic-knowledge-truth, ethics-meaning-goodness, aesthetics-emotion-beauty.

To put it simply: knowledge is human's cognitive power, aiming to achieve the purpose of truth; It means human willpower, in order to achieve the goal of perfection; Emotion is a person's emotional strength, aiming at achieving a perfect goal.