Nature And God

Since the discipline of Chinese philosophy was born in China, the researcher's opinion is almost in accordance with that of Mr. Feng Youlan, one of the advocates of the studies of the history of Chinese philosophy and who also promoted the division of the concept of heaven into nature and God, so the meaning of the different opinion into the materialism and the mentalism.The different meaning of the two concepts was almost analogous to the opposing idea of materialism and mentalism. Thus, the contradictory concept of nature and God was naturally considered.They cannot accommodate each other any longer, and become a pair of contradictory. Thereafter, Xun Zi was treated as generally one of ancient materialists, and the concept of heaven in his Discourse in Heaven is also treated as nature, but has no religious meaning.The researcher's discourses that Xun Zi is an atheistic materialist and his original thinking as well as the concept of heaven that refers to the nature of this research seemingly has not gained full understanding.To gain full understanding of Xun Zi's concept of heaven, one must understand the culture, mental perspective and ideology of the ancient times Chinese.In Xun Zi's view, the concept of heaven in many places is the nature, such as"It acts as it always does, neither exist for Yao, or perish with Jie","It does not stop the winter because the people hate the cold"and so on, but interestingly, refers to God who enjoys the sacrificial offering in other places. For instance, Xun Zi thought that"the ritual has three roots", namely heaven and earth, the ancestor and the monarch and the teacher,and the most vital significance of ritual sacrifice these roots. From this viewpoint, Xun Zi's referred nature and God as an identical object from a different angle.The concept of heaven of an identical person that refers to the nature and also God, is not always contradictory. The reason that we thought that the concept of heaven impossible is not only this, also that, has the historical reason, but also has idealistic perspective. We must consider and understand the reasons brought about by this prejudice, and instead possibly regard the mainstream perspective and ideology in the ancient times Chinese.To further analyze this discourse, the paper utilized the contextual criticism of Xun Zi's certain concepts as bases and arranged it according to the new logical mentality in order to resolve Xun Zi's concept of heaven under Confucianism field of vision, which consequently resulted in the formulation of the primary meaning of Xun Zi's concept of heaven-- that is-- heaven is both nature and God.The case study method through the viewpoint of Confucianism was used. Confucianism promulgated the concept of heaven based on the dual meanings of nature and God.