Reveiewing Evolvement Of Xianqin's Selfhood Fhrough Gnome

It is a tradition in history of philosophy that is discussing selfhood. Physicality and mentality are associated by selfhood, which is embodied in labor and intercourse. Gnome was formed in course of human changing nature and society. It could show that self-concept of Xianqin because it had various and continued entities.In the period of primitive society and XiaShang, clannish and fanning culture was the elementary content, which builded the natural individual. The natural individal was in kindred community, and inseparably depended on the clan and nature. It was no value and significance when the individual separated from the clan.In the beginning people had the notion of animatism, and they endowed glebe with spiritualism. Gnome's figures were earth and wood. The natural individual perceived selves in the natural objects.In the period of totemism, many life's forms were integrated, and gnome was half-man and half-beast, which reflected that the value of human rised and the natural individual gained support of low entity. But human's power was still seriously astricted.Ancestor worship was the great step of self-concept of the natural individal. The selfhood of the natural individal was covered by ancestor's. Ancestor, who could communicated with the jinn, was the representation of his posterity. He was the supporting role on the process of gnome's sacrifice, which incarnated that the selfhood of the natural individual was prominent.The social hardcore content of Zhou was the patriarchal clan system, and the clan-social individual appeared. As the reflection of the society, Zhou's jinn world also was in the patriar clan system. Tiandi was the imperator of jinn world, every jinn, as the individual of real life, was fixed in the system. The mythos of GunYu in incarnated that Tiandi was absolute authority and jinn was immoral.Zhou's people woke up to the import of moral, and they combined the Tiandi with moral. So jinn was rebuilded by moral principle.In Zhou saint appeared, which was a new self-concept, and Yu was the best annotation. People began to pay attention to moral go-aheadism of individual, and they changed Yu as a saint by the means of gracious morality and achievement, which was standard for everyone to be a saint. The value of the individual exceeded the objective...