On Political Philosophy of Engineering: Li Bocong’s <italic> <bold>An Introduction to the Philosophy of Engineering: I Create, Therefore I Am</bold> </italic>

The Two Kinds of Gongcheng (Engineering) in Chinese: Both on the Basic Categories, Characteristics and Framework of Philosophy of Gongcheng

“…is an abstract and constructed "gongcheng" from the history of engineering practice and the analysis of the ancient Chinese word "工程", highlighting its philosophical, general and ontological nature, and taking "community action" as its core work. On this basis, Chinese scholars represented by Li Bocong put forward the basic topics of engineering philosophy, such as the planning of the engineering process, the implementation of the engineering process, the use of materials and life, and the integration of heaven, earth and man (Li, 2002). Moreover, the ontological category of engineering philosophy has undergone a certain development, and has changed from "Creating" to "Doing" at the beginning.…”

“…At the beginning of the 21st century, the philosophy of engineering emerged in Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy, marked by Li (2002) Introduction to Engineering Philosophy: I Create, Therefore I Am and Bucciarelli's (2003) Engineering Philosophy. However, with the further development, exchange and dialogue between Chinese and Western engineering philosophies, it is found that there is a clear difference between the language environment inhabited by Westerners and the language environment inhabited by Chinese, which shows the asymmetry of the meaning of the word engineering in the two contexts (Yin, 2017).…”