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East China Normal University The Research Of The Philosophy Of Life Of Chen JiRu

Posted on:2006-09-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:G F SongFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360152992939Subject:Ancient literature
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Chen JiRu, one of the most well-known and most representative hermits in late Ming Dynasty, all enjoyed very high reputation between common minister's doctor and town common people. Its richness in great numbers of works, spread wide in the society at that time. But this big celebrated scholar in late Ming Dynasty became the target of public criticism in Qing Dynasty, had suffered the severe criticism of the court official of Qing Dynasty, even was regarded as the snob of the influential official, this is misunderstanding of Chen JiRu. This text, through the understanding of his works mainly, expounds the fact his philosophy of life -" how to survive ",in order to correct leaning towards the place lost of this kind of appraisal about Chen JiRu, and represent his true and abundant inner world . This kind of philosophy says it is his existence and realizes the idea of value in self- life briefly, including the meaning of two aspects of material and spirit, on the material aspect, Chen JiRu abandoned traditional the Confucian school were happy to lead a simple virtuous life, affirmed the material demand and pursued the rationality of the interests, affirmed the material desire is enjoyed, and regarded the satisfaction of the material life as the primary condition of realizing surviving, and created the abundant material life and good living environment through selling such business activities as the book ,etc; Though had an high regard for the material to enjoy, Chen JiRu had not fallen into disuse in the inner world and the person who becomes extreme material desire doctrine, on the spiritual aspect of his philosophy of life, he advocated the true love , respected women , which have reflected the progressive democratic thought and spirit of individual character liberation. While building oneself and living, he paid close attention to the people's livelihood and the state too, worked for the people , seek profit for the country, he regarded those as the realization of value and supreme realm of the philosophy of life in self- life. The philosophy of life reflects his balance between "office" and "hermit" , between "reaching" and "poor" , between " renouncing the world " and "experiencing the world " . This kind of philosophy of life has determined his behavior and value orientation too: although him escape common customs far for recluse , incorporated common customs society , enjoyed common customs happy to the limit; although as scholar ,he did not light trader and low profit, set the good living environment through the business activity; Although not an official , did not avoid contacting with the common minister's influential official, realizing the purpose of profiting people with their contacts.In order to explain the question, this text is divided into three parts mainly. First part describes Chen JiRu's existence background, seeks the social reason the philosophy of life forms , corruption of the late Ming Dynasty politics rules impels Chen JiRu to give up realizing the value traditional way in life --Imperial examinations, the rise of the idea of wang YangMing that pursues individual character liberation studies, the flourishing development of commodity economy, the common customs of the court official incline to offer the opportunity for the fact that he looksfor the new philosophy of life again, make him ferment and form " how to survive" philosophy. Second part announces the method and principle of this kind of philosophy of life: "doing everything by oneself and "doing everything smartly". The former reflects kinds of independence, the latter reflects kinds of mobility and strategy. The third part describes the application of the philosophy of life. This is a key part of this text. It is the realization of the material aspect at first, Chen JiRu had created the good life atmosphere, the ones that are enjoying the common customs including delicious food, mountain occupy , tea and wine ; Then the realization of the spiritual aspect, through the praising true love, respecting women ,he pursued the world in love,...
Keywords/Search Tags:Chen JiRu, the philosophy of life, the thought of how to survive
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