The book deals with Chinese philosophies that are of historical and systematic significance, pursuing the question of whether they could contribute to developing a global philosophy. In its descriptions and evaluations of such traditions and orientations as Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, Buddhism, and Maoism, the book investigates the ideas Chinese philosophies provide to solve such basic problems as how to defend one’s personal dignity, how to gain and communicate knowledge, how to argue in a valid and nevertheless becoming way, or how to harmonize moral obligations and aesthetic interests.