On Liang Shuming's Ultimate Concern And Practice

On the methodological bases of simpatico comprehension and positive rational criticism, this thesis combs and explains Liang Shuming's ideas of ultimate concern from multi-dimensions, especially from the three perspectives of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, analyzing his related practical activities and investigating the reasons for forming his ideas such as the influences of families, times, and social cultural traditions. Thus, the ideas of ultimate concern of "the last Confucian" and his latent worrying mentality are showed clearly, and his hard train of thought for pursuing for the Confucian ideas, that is, the inside integrated personality and the outside activities reforming society, was returned to original condition. Understanding the life pursuit of Liang Shuming, the conservative in culture and the explorer of the ideas of ultimate concern, can prompt us to broaden our flexible ways of thingKing in inheriting the cultural resources, and to realize the characteristics of intellectuals by understanding the connotations of values, indicating the hardships intellectuals bear and defects they reveal in the process of modernization. We can see from Liang Shuming that Chinese intellectuals' reconstructing spiritual values is the prerequisite for the Chinese people to realize modernization and it has significant historical meanings. Therefore, it is necessary to rearouse intellectuals' orientation of social roles and awareness of subjects.