Review On ZhuXi's Kingly Way Thought

The thought of kingly way showed Confucian's comprehension about politics in some extent. Along with the political thought level enhancement, ZhuXi has developed the traditional Confucian's theory of kingly way. He had proven in metaphysics way that the kingly way was some politics conforming to the natural justice absolutely, whose basic characteristic was morality and justice first. ZhuXi's understanding about kingly way was somewhat similar to deontology of modern west. However, on the understanding of the kingly way, ZhuXi obviously has also been restricted by Chinese tradition thinking mode, so that he has not found deontology of modern society for traditional China. Holding the ideas of morality and justice first, we could makes the logical understanding and estimate to ZhuXi's kingly way thought, which can further deepen knows the Chinese traditional Confucians'understanding to politics. It can help us to understand the importance of morality and justice of politics. The first part of this article mainly lists the Confucians'ideas of the kingly way in their political thought. Through the inspection of pre-Ch'in and East and West-Han dynasty's thinkers'understanding of the kingly way, makes the judgment to the traditional kingly way concept. In that period thinks has obtained the kingly way the concept of kingly way through regarding experience in historical process, specially the historical process form Xia dynasty to ChunQiu Period time. At that time, the kingly way the thinkers referred to is the way in which the Xia Shang and zhou dynasties'kings ran their states. Therefore the concept of kingly way meant mainly the kings' historical experience. At the same time, the kingly way also had the significance conforming to morality and justice politics connotation. pre-Ch'in and East and West-Han dynasty's thinkers'believed that the politics conforming to morality and justice was equal to the experience of saints.The second part discusses Zhu Xi'thought of kingly way that had developed the thought of to pre-Ch'in and East and West-Han dynasty's thinkers. Zhu Xi comprehended the morality and justice that the kingly way must observe to in a metaphysical way. So he had a thorough grasp of both...