On Dai Zhen's Freedom Spirit And Its Significance

During the human history, anyone cannot avoid the non-freedom fortune of being chained and hoodwinked, no matter the non-freedom is exterior or internal. The non-freedom is not human's predeterminate fortune, but pursuing freedom impenetrates the whole human history. Freedom, which is one of the most basic enlightenment's characteristics, becomes the main body of this research. From the latest representation of archaic philosophy, which is the free genes in Dai Zhen's ideas, we open out primary expression of the former enlightenment in China in this dissertation.This dissertation consists of three parts.Part one sets forth the commencement of Dai Zhen's ideas, which is from the counteraction of Neo-Confucianism. From the main clue of Dai Zhen's flesh and blood's affirmation, we explore Dai Zhen's freedom spirit and its ethical base.Part two mainly opens out the main contents of Dai Zhen's freedom spirit.Part three sets forth the significance of Dai Zhen's freedom spirit, which is on the background of putting the Dai Zhen's freedom spirit into the former enlightenment thought in China for no dissevering history.