Cultural Insight On Substance And Function Of Neo-Idealism

Controversies on"the ancient V.the modern"and"the Chinese V.the Western"were the central topics of ideological sphere across the whole almost history. Discussing substance and function of culture was an important way to answer this question.He Lin who was one of the Neo-Confucianists followed this way. His cultural theory inherited the theory of traditional Chinese thoughts origin of substance and function,with the ideal idealism of Neo-idealism for philosophy foundation, with freedom for basic spirit.In answer to the debate,it drew the three aspects of controversy:"true culture" proposition that spirit is substance and the culture is function; Confucianism for substance, western culture for function with new Confucianism for construction program; thought morals for substance and the industry for function with modernization viewpoint.He Lin's Cultural Insight expressed the seeking for human culture generally, and that as a goal to fusion of Chinese and western culture, ancient and modern elements to national spirit and unity of the spirit of The Times. With this idea, he took his claim to the "substance"of the " true culture " the conversion, eventually implement to Confucianism real spirit. He thought Confucianism embodied the value concept of cultural generality, claimed the Confucian thoughts become cultural development bodies.Standing in the height of the cultural anthropology, from the concept of cultural philosophy formed on the ideal of human culture and the cultural construction of human subjectivity, all the attention of Mr He Lin was useful, and his theory of cultural groups with the exploration had become since modern times Chinese and western "problems" and respond to the rich individual character characteristic of thought.He Lin's cultural theories had idealism colour, and showed a paradoxical cultural psychology, and it was He Lin's fundamental cultural view that the spirit culture is substance and the material culture is function,which is a subjective conception.It also condemned the cultural construction of the difficulties of achieving claim. How real culture construction by " substance " levels of the development of spiritual culture with " function " the development of material culture, leveled in Confucian again how from "internal saints" open on the issue of "external Kings". The Neo-idealism of He Lin set the contact with logic subject-the logical heart, but without explaining how to "new internal saints" open " external Kings " this important problem.