From Textual Criticism To Neo-Argumentation Of Essay

In the time of the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the learners of the Confucian classics, attempting to break from the theoretical restrictions of the Song-Ming Li Xue, criticized the hollow of the Li Xue ,starting a ideological trend of Jing Shi Shi Xue.Under the history cultural background of the changing time,Dai zhen,one of the famous textual criticists of Confucian classics during the period of Qian Long and Jia Qing of the Qing Dynasty, and also well known as a philosopher and thinker in the 18th century was born. His position in Chinese history of academic thinking was based on his profound introspection and merciless criticism to the traditional culture. As a textual criticist who majored in glossing the study of the Confucian classics, or a philosopher who took argumentation as his ultimate purpose, Dai Zhen possessed an academic character with a significant thinking feature which consistenly manifested remarkable rational spirit.Dai Zhen, who lived in the time of the textual criticism of the generation, made a great contribution to the textual criticism of Qing Dynasty, with his distinctive academic character and academic theory. The rational spirit of Dai Zhen's academic thinking decided that he had the overtaking spirit of backing to Yi Li from textual criticism. This made him, from a textual criticist that led the textual criticism of the generation, became a philosopher and thinker that dared to face up with the reality and beyond his times. Dai Zhen, criticized the traditional Li Xue with his new Yi Li and changed his indirection of the criticism to the social reality. His theoretical criticism and social criticism radiated with rational enlighten light.Dai Zhen's pragmatic and realistic science rational spirit, a thinker's boldness of vision of the counter-tradition, counter-authority and counter-autocracy, have a important enlighten meaning.