Study On The Intuitionism Of Mou Zongsan’s Thoughts Of Understanding The World

The Modern Neo-confucianism was born in the1920s. It is an academic school which, based on Confucianism, integrates western philosophical thoughts into Confucianism. As the personage of the second generation of Neo-confucianism, Mou Zongsan is one of the philosophers who cherish the deepest critical and original thinking. He’s not only inherited the traditional Confucianism and the early neo-confucianism, but assimilated western philosophical thoughts, particularly the essence of Kantianism. He formed his specific philosophical thinking, the essence of which is Intuitionism.The Intuitionism of Mou Zongsan originated mainly from the traditional Confucianism, the early intuitive thoughts of neo-confucianism, modern western non-rationalism and Kantianism thoughts, and came into being after the processing, refining and integrating of the oriental and occidental thoughts.This thesis, focusing on the subject and object of Intuitionism as well as its process and role, will discuss Mou Zongsan’s Intuitionism. Mou Zongsan believes that the subject of intuition, that is, the conscience noumenon, includes three "I":phenomenon "I", thing-in-itself "I", cognitive "I". The corresponding object also has three aspects: phenomenon, thing-in-itself, concept. Subject needs a process to understand object through intuition. In this process, intuition plays an important role. In this thesis, the author investigates, in terms of feeling intuition and formal instinct, mainly the role that intuition plays in the creation of scientific knowledge from the perspective of viewing intellectual intuition as its source. The role of intuition has been explained from the source in scientific knowledge creation. And then the importance of scientific knowledge is summed up. Mou Zongsan insists that intuition thinking is particularly important for us mankind. We grasp the phenomenon and thing itself only through intuition. At the same time, in the affirmation of Chinese culture, Mou Zongsan claims that China has to pay much attention to science and democracy in order to realize modernization. Mou Zongsan thinks that, Chinese culture is capable of self-renewal. The traditional Confucianism can produce science and democracy itself. That is, scientific knowledge may be produced through intuition. Intuition and logical rationalism correspond with the function of humans’ right and left brain respectively. Mou Zongsan insists that tuition and logical rationalism are mankind’s two necessary thinking ways. Mankind cannot afford to lose any of them. Civilization can not get improved and society cannot make progress until we mankind make the full use of the function of the two cerebral hemispheres.On the whole, in the field of vision, people’s cognitive activities and the scientific knowledge gained in the process of such activities are controlled by the nature of the ontology. So wisdom activities are not confined to the virtue know, but virtue know still hangs over the virtue of knowledge know in the modern new Confucianism. To virtue known offside, Mou Zongsan just made certain adjustments. Ontology mainly sustained by intuition body, reasons us. Intellectual subject exists attached to the moral subject. Scientific truth reveals the essence of the phenomenal world. It still belongs to the ultimate essence-moral metaphysics.