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A Study On The Ideal Of Righteousness And Benefit Of Ye Shi

Posted on:2011-12-02Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1115360305972638Subject:Chinese philosophy
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In the traditional Confucianism, the discussion between benefit and righteousness has been a focus at all the time. Confucius said:" A gentleman should seek for righteousness, while the fluckies seek for benefif".Confucius takes benefit and righteousness as a contradict conception,and he takes righteousness as the origin of a gentleman. He deems righteousness as righteousness as a supremacy moral principle of himself.namely, he takes righteousness as the preferential principle. This principle then has been developed brightly in the traditional of Confucianism Until Dong Zhongshu brought forward the ideal of "seeking the righteousness rather than the benefit, mastering the value rather than the result",it is further make righteousness and benefit become an corresponding contradict conception's Xi has again further extended the ideal,he thought" That is why Mencius only refer to benefit rather than referring to benefit, that what can repair the downside, this is the heart of Saint". Up to this period,The ideal of Concerning on righteousness rather than benefit becoming the mainstream of Confucius at that time.In the Southern Song dynasty,due to the location of the government, the economy in Wen Zhou district has gain a fast development.In this period, there appearing some representative local school:Yong Jia school and Yong Kang school, among them the most distinguished Yong Jia school is known as the discussion between the traditional relationship between righteousness and benefit.From the direct discussion between Chen Liang and Zhu Xi, on the "imperialism and benefit " to Ye Shi:" adoring benefit to nourish righteousness ""to neutralize benefit by righteousness ""Benefit would become illusory if not it referred to benefit ". Superficially, it is obviously a revere about Confucianism, but if we look into the inner logical development of Confucianism,Ye Shi's theory on the relationship between Benefit and righteousness is also a tremendous important step of the development of Confucianism, so to study his theory is on the one hand, a cleaning up of the core spirit of Confucianism, on the other hand, it is also a nourishment and coordinate of how Confucianism would answer the challenge of the world and further develop.The Yong Jia school's appear is at the background of the economy of the South Zhe Jiang province has developed extremely fast and Lu Xue school has been introduced into due to the government moving into the South. From the origin 9 scholar to Xue Jixuan, Chen Fuliang, Yong Jia school's theory, from the point of view as a school, is was not shaped yet.But up to Ye Shi,it became a local school that Zhu Xi very much concerned on.at this time from the point of view as a systemic theory, it was although not perfect,but Ye Shi has already accomplished the systemic construction on the theory of benefit and righteousness by using the traditional ideal,core spirit, systemic language.He started from, he denied the theory about it was made by Confucian,rather than deemed only small part of the book was done by Confucian, and then he deny the theory about "Eight Trigrams was done by Fu Xi" "Develop to 64 Trigrams ".and finally got a conclusion that "ration is from Trigram ".on the foundation of legalized his theory, he further address the arrangement of his "Tao", He separated Tao in Confucianism from the affection by Buddhism and Taoism, point out "Heaven has its Tao, while human has its own ".Thus to free people from the transcendent astrict, promote people's rational ability.Based on this, he discussion the move and peace on "attribute ",analyzing differently from traditional Confucianism about the origin of "false ""emotion ".On this metaphysic base, he proved the ration about the seeking of benefitOn the other hand, although Ye Shi has freed human's ration from the astrict of transcendent ideal,the work was not thorough. Because of the restrict of times and idealism itself.He again went to back to the language construction of Confucianism constantly to seek a relation between the ration and transcendent ideal.So the discussion the conception of "Imperatorialism " "neutralization ",which is a actually a theory of noumenon. In this historic noumenon theory, it is a very mixture of ideal,institute,conception.But due to the intangible theory of noumenon, make it hard to understand his theory of "inner Holy ".And due to the faintly and incompletely constructed on the theory of noumenon, when his theory goes to the arrangement of epistemology,hisTheory on "Back to Ceremony"did not gain any foundation, thus had finally gone back to "Respectionism " Ye Shi's theory has not become markedness and finally submerged by Zhu Xi, this fact although has political reason, but among the which theoretically, the imperfection on the construction of noumenon is one of the biggest facet.Ye Shi's theory, extrinsically is the abundant practice in the reality.Economically,he tell the difference between "collecting money" and "financing", deemed that government should highlight the function of rich people.in the aspect of military,he considered military is not only about "using the army ",He brought up concretely solution to the exceed of army. Politically,he reckoned on that government officer selecting issue should started from system construction,all these abundant practice is just a good embodiment of his theoryAs a great thinker in the Southern Song dynasty, his theory on the righteousness and benefit, his abundant practice on the reality, is a giant treasury.it has a multi meaning, as a local school, it has activate the economy development of South Zhe Jiang province,especially Wen Zhou district; as a one of the theory of Confucianism,it has shown the vital and energy of Confucianism. Especially at the background of globalization, facing the challenge of the language of the west, what this vital and energy has given us, it not only a inspiration, but rather than a confident, with the spreading of the confident, thus we gained a confident of Chinese culture in the future.benefitlism...
Keywords/Search Tags:Ye Shi, Philosophy of Utilitarianism, School of Yong Jia
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