方東美是位泛神論者。他是現代新儒家中的一面光輝旗幟。方東美生於斯地，興斯「學統」；既能於平淡中出奇異，又能化不可思議為可思議。其機體主義哲學，博采中國先哲天人合一的智慧而鎔融貫通之；其一真法界之本體論，兼收並蓄中西形上學思想之學理而集大成之；其雙回向理論，立於華嚴但卻面向整個哲學界而顯發其真理性；於儒家，尊孟子而不貶斥孔子。其哲學是以生命為學問，而且是以實現生命永存為目標的。方東美的哲學亦是中國哲學的一個縮寫。

Fang Dongmei was a pantheist and the highlight of modern Neo-Confucianism. He developed the intellectual tradition, created the special from the common and made the unthinkable conceivable. Fang’s philosophy of organism absorbed and digested the old Chinese philosophical wisdom of the unity between heaven and man. His ontology about the dharma realm of the one reality integrated both western and Chinese metaphysical thoughts, while his theory of the “double-back trend” was rooted in Hua Yen Buddhism but manifested its truthfulness to the whole world of philosophy. Regarding Confucianism, Fang respected Mengzi without detracting Confucius. As a miniature of Chinese philosophy, Fang’s philosophy was based on life and aimed to achieve the immortality of the life in the reality.