Chen Liang's Historical Philosophy

Chen Liang is the Southern Song Dynasty famous thinker, the founder of Yongkang school of thought, he bares his thoughts richly numerous and disorderly, covering history, philosophy, economy, military and so on. He advocates governs of very practical use, opposes the empty talk, the initiative real situation asks the Chen Liang thought and the Southern Song Dynasty internal disorder and foreign invasion reality are closely related. He embarks from the reality, learns from history and serves for the reality.Chen Liang's individualistic disposition and the spirit struggling for the reality stimulate the power in my research, peeling a layer upon layer to the realistic inspirational thing in the analysis is the value of my research. Predecessor's angles of studies in Chen Liang bring the inspiration and ponder, the little spark condenses to think his philosophy of history. In the widespread collection of correlation data and the predecessor's studies, I take the character scholarly work as the basic point, unified its individual disposition, his friends, his activities at that time, social background, posterity appraisal and so on, analyze his numerous and disorderly thought to make a connection with character's spot thought in the relation dialectical ponder, and form the thought vein, this is the Chen Liang's philosophy of history. On the understandings of the mutual connection between the nature and the human society, the Chen Liang's philosophy of history thought is also defined slowly. What the Chen Liang philosophy of history thought is more to seek for the basis from the history for the reality national promotion. His life ran around calling for help for the anti-golden Northern Expedition, anticipated that own grand determination and study all year long had the displaying stage. This patriotic fervor encouraged Chen Liang to fight in the rough life.Chen Liang has the naive materialism idea brightly, stresses that the nature's existence of objectivity, and evolves the inevitable regularity in such basic point, which transits to the human society is one kind of social development inheritance "the humanity". Human beings strive for individual legitimate interest to display the ability and wisdom diligently, to impel the society forge ahead unceasingly in the objective practice. He insists "Dao" is existing and inheritance; Proposes that "kingly way" is a goal, "arbitrariness" is the method for country and the versatility is important for development; He gets the moral outlook that "the just desire is Dao" and the talented person theory of the governing needing "the extreme person"; He advises empiricism of learning from history and the epistemology studying for reality, these practical theory and the drawing close to reality's political opinion are proposed in the profound analysis history in view at that time the reality for governing, down to at that time afterward has had the very tremendous influence, which gives the thought further development of very practical use for the Ming and Qing Dynasties time, and makes the Chinese tradition thought inheriting. As the times change, the successor's choices to the predecessor thought must make an own ponder diligently.