The Exploring Of Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts

Liang Qichao is learned and versatile, a master both in Chinese and western culture, and an Encyclopedia scholar. His thoughts derives from many fields, such as, politics, economics and culture. Thus, in 20 century, he is one of the academic founders in China. However, his New Chinese Ethical Thoughts, which puts forward the cultural issue of human modernization and re-construction of Chinese traditional ethnics and ideologies under the modern conditions, which establishes his important position in modern ethnics and ideologies history in China. The thesis takes "New Democracy Theory" as the main research material and tries to dig up the profound thoughts of ethnics and ideologies from it. On one hand, we tries to fully grasp the value of Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethic Thoughts and give it scientific position. On the other hand, we hope to provide some valuable reference and enlightenment for the construction of our country's core system of socialism. Altogether, there are four parts, The main content is as the following.In Part One, we introduce the cultural background and theoretical origin of Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts. The dual era themes of modern China, namely, saving and enlightening, and the reconstruction of traditional morality were bound to become the deeper cultural background of Liang Qichao's new Chinese ethical thoughts. In addition, building on the traditional Confucianism and the western ethnical thoughts Liang Qichao accepted after he was exiled to Japan as the result of the failure of Wuxu Reform, he developed his new Chinese ethical thoughts.In Part Two, we elaborate the core and general idea of the Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts. Patriotism is the ultimate goal of moral cultivation. Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts, based on traditional Chinese morality and also implanted with western outstanding ethics and morality, are the ideological fruits shaped in the process of saving the our country in peril, and their core is patriotism. Patriotism runs through every moral relationship and moral quality. The following is its concrete embodiment: putting forward the argument of Chinese national spirit; Emphasizing "State Thought"; devoting to "saving the nation". He successfully built the new Chinese image: independent, democratic, enterprising, adventurous, patriotic, concerning the public. The new Chinese qualities are " abiding by social moralities, good at cooperation, performing the rights and obligations, benefiting himself and also the public, keeping forging ahead actively, militarism and strong willpower. In a word, in his mental course of trying to save the country in peril with the help of remolding national character, patriotism is displayed.In Part Three, we clarify the principles and the solution to fulfillment of Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts. In the rising tide of China's enlightenment and western learning, Liang Qichao considered the situation well, and successfully settled the clash between Chinese and western cultures. In the meantime, Liang Qichao also put forward the method of realizing new Chinese ethical thoughts: moral revolution; systematic innovation; civil education, etc.In Part Four: Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethic Thoughts is positioned in a scientific way and its contemporary enlightenment is analyzed. Because of the limitations of the era and knowledge, Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts is not perfect and will definitely have some limitations, which include idealism when construct New Chinese Ethical Thoughts , metaphysics when criticize traditional ethics, national nihilism at some extent when deal with Chinese and western cultures and so on. Nevertheless, the bourgeois ethical thoughts with dual significance of enlightening and reflecting has its reference meaning. Particularly, we should affirmed its reference and enlightenment all the more during the construction of our socialist core value system.Based on the studying of previous research data, we aims to sum up and integrate the fragmentary arguments by the way of reading documents and combining the theory and practice. On one hand, we tries to fully grasp the value of Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts and give it scientific position. On the other hand, we hope to provide beneficial help for the construction of our country's core system of socialism through the systematic interpretation of Liang Qichao's New Chinese Ethical Thoughts.