Confucian Principle Of Intuitive Knowledge

Mou Zongsan's theory is one of the most innovative and elaborative ideas for modern new Confucianism. Having absorbed the philosophical ideas of Kant and Hegel, he has constructed a huge philosophical system, which is based on the Xin Xue of the traditional Confucianism. "Self-Denying of Conscience" is his great contribution to philosophy, and is said to be able to contact the noumenon with phenomenon. However his theory is in a dilemma when it is used to explain many academic focus.There are many comments on the "Self-Denying of Conscience" of Mou Zongsan. These positive and negative comments have something in common. Therefore, the present thesis attempts to reveal this puzzlement by using the approach of phenomenology, and to display the metaphysical features of Confucian construct by discussing the history of Confucian conscience theory. Those features can be shown in the following two aspects. On the one hand, they continue to reveal the existence of origin priority, but on the other hand, they consciously try to realize an absolute reality, which is so called the metaphysical subject. As a result, it has successfully eliminated the conflicition between "object" and "subject", and has made the absolute of "noumenon" unquestionable. But the origin of "noumenon" remains to be further explored.It requires facing the things themselves for Phenomenology in the most direct way and with no any preconditions. But metaphysics has forgotten the being of existence repeatedly. Then, how to maintain our inquiries about the being itself becomes the basic problems for metaphysics. The only solution to solve this...