Research is our radical
search-around in all directions imaginable. It inevitably turns to self-scrutinize
to self-direct toward comprehensive interculture,
as interaction of many modes of thinking and searching, even methodologically
on how research goes. This Socratic-comprehensive turn of research is philosophy, research of all researches. This
essay common-sensibly elucidates their triune intimacy, from research via
philosophy to interculture. Thus this essay has three parts, A: research, B:
philosophy, and C: interculture. Part A researches into why, what, and how of research, and then explores its Janus-faced
door. Part B reflects on what was explained on research as philosophy, as
catalyst of research to interculture. Part C, 1) looks at two contrastive
cultures, the West and China as typical of “many world cultures,” 2) how the
West and China interculture, to conclude with two cautions on interculture in
our research.