Liang Shuming "replace The Religion With Moral" Analysis

Liang Shuming is a well known thinker, philosopher and a master of Chinese traditional culture. Besides, honored as the last Confucian in China, he is also a personage of educator and social activist. He carries on the Confucian spirit of doing things step by step, and concerns the Chinese and Chinese society in perspective of philosophy. At the beginning of20th society, he puts forward the thought of "substituting the moral for religion" to rebuild the ethnical belief of people. Taking the traditional Confucian ethnic as foundation, the philosophical and psychological research as perspective and the human idea as the logical point, he discusses the rich connotation of his moral rationality. Besides, he applies his thought into the reality, and develops his theory according to the rural construction activities. Finally, he hopes to achieve the personage’s good behavior, the harmonious society’s good order and the nation’s development.On the basis of "substituting the moral for religion", the passage describes the thought of moral and ethnic, especially the rich connotations of its moral rationalism. First and foremost, the essay describes the causes of Liang Shuming’s thought. The reasons include personal reason, the current political situation, and the social and cultural trend of thought. Furthermore, by describing the specific content, we elaborate the rich connotation and core value of moral and ethical though. With the help of Confucian theory of original goodness of human nature and the Lu&Wang philosophy of the mind, we draw the conclusion that moral is the practice of human life. What’s more, by introducing his rural construction activities itself, we discuss the practical meaning and shortcomings in the faith reconstruction of people. To sun up, considering the contemporary Chinese society, especially during this transition period, the moral and ethical thought of Liang Shuming has great value to the seeking of Chinese brief.