Sun Yat-sen Thought Study

Sun yat-sen as the pioneer of China’s democratic revolution, who launched the Xinhai revolution, has left a precious spiritual wealth, and had led to future generations’thinking space at the same time. Unlike other thinkers, Sun yat-sen based his overallthought on a philosophical foundation consisting of evolution and Sheng Yuan theory;he had laid a theoretical foundation for national salvation as well as enlightened nationalvision.When his evolution theory was combined with the Epistemology, it promoted thetransformation of Knowledge and Action’s view; with the moral concept, it establishedthe social ethics relation of free, equality and fraternity; with the concept of socialhistory, it produced a unique history the people’s livelihood; with the culture, it formedthe open learning attitude. His Sheng Yuan theory also played a positive role, not onlyaffirmed the atheism thoughts, but also demonstrated the origin of human consciousness,enlarged the role of the spirit. He established a huge and profound ideological system ona philosophical basis, aiming at establishing a new bourgeois democratic republic,realizing the Tu jia type development, in order to find a position for our nation in theworld.The purpose of this presentation is to analyze Sun yat-sen’s moral, cultural,religious and political thoughts, survey evolution and Sheng Yuan theory that played anactive role in his ideas as a whole, mined Xin Hai revolution that overthrew the feudalautocratic rule of historical significance, searched for the human spirit’s autonomy in theconstruction of the republic of China, and explored the many efforts of Sun yat-sen tothe great rejuvenation Chinese dream.