A Study On The Thought Of "Personality" And Its Value

Liu Shao’s Records of Personages is a book about how to evaluate one’s character in Cao-Wei Period which provide the important theory basis for monarch to select talents. The research of talent studies was still scattered and unsystematic during that time, while Liu Shao established a more systematic theory in his Records of Personages. The theory of talent studies which is contained in Records of Personages, including problems about what thoughts and theories did Liu Shao based on to establish his own theory and how did he build his talent theory system. In addition to the talent science thought of Liu Shao, the research methods he used, as well as the theory about temperament and talent of nature in the book Records of Personages,that plays an enlightening role for the later formation of metaphysics. Liu Shao express his methods and thoughts by means of talent studies. Superficially, it seems that his thoughts has not that much influnce on the abstract concepts and theories of metaphysics. However, in fact, Liu Shao’s thoughts for the development of metaphysics theory provides an important theoretical basis.Liu Shao using Adoption of a policy of official accountability and Logical analysis as its character the two methods, in fact is to investigate whether the name and reality is consistent.Liu Shao’s Adoption of a policy of official accountability method of specific application in the Records of Personages.And summarizes the concept of Ba guan and Qi miu, Qi si and other general method.Adoption of a policy of official accountability and Qi si, such as used for the metaphysics of methodology also provides a reference basis.Liu Shao’s talent thoughts including people’s temperament and talent of nature, identifying and using talented people methods, being and not being, one and many. People’s temperament and talent of nature is the theoretical basis of Liu Shao thought problem.Liu Shao through to the meta, Yin and Yang, five elements the three concepts,the meaning of further reflects the enthusiasm.From people’s temperament further raises the concept of talent of nature the standard of talent.Talent of nature the problem is to differentiate the theory basis of all kinds of talents,according to the different talent of nature can be divided into different talents.Different talents including monarchs and ministers,according to different mood and minister, talent of nature can play different positions,The Records of Personages in the classification of talent thought as provides the ruler of talent judging criteria.Liu Shao’s view of evaluate talents provides basis reference for the metaphysics of methodology. Material of Zhu De, Material of Pian Zhi, saint is nameless and minister should do take responsibility, all of these thoughts involved in Records of Personages that lay the foundation of the abstract concepts for one and many, being and not being. It is significance to study thoughts and value of Records of Personages. It is not only for the ancient social but also for the later development of metaphysics has important academic value.