On Zhang Zai’s Love

Chinese culture is a kind of ethics culture, mainly deal with the people problem,human relations problems. The filial piety as the core of the Confuciankindheartedness ethic, through the schools of thought contend, in the Emperor Wu ofHan Dynasty, achieve the official academic status, become the standard ethics order.But since the Wei and Jin dynasty Taoism rise, Buddhist incoming, nationalintegration, social development, Confucian ethics ’s absolute position come underchallenge, the human stable relationship is broken, need reconstruct. This stimulatedthe Confucian scholars bear consciousness and consciousness of morality, Confucianscholars put forward their theories, in order to coordinate the interpersonal relations,so neo-confucianism come into being. Zhang Zai, as one of the pioneer of theneo-phylosophy, he transform the Confucian benevolence, put forward the "love willlove everyone", require love must love all people. This put the Confuciankindheartedness to the highest point in history, become the perfect embodiment of theChina humanitarian spirit. Profound influence on later generationsThis paper points the following three chapters discuss Zhang Zai’s ethics of love.The first chapter of Chinese culture love’s happens, mainly divided three sections, asfollow: Through the investigation of the relationship between love and humancivilization，we find that love is the power of human survival, as well as thestandard of universal ethics, that building the love of the universal ethic is notpossible, at the same time, briefly retrospect China’s cultural and ethical love. Chapterii Zhang Zai ethical connotation of love, it is divided into four concrete analysisZhang Zai love’s ideological connotation. The first section, love your neighbor asyourself is benevolence, discusses what love is，and love with benevolence, etiquetteof relationship. The second section: love will love everyone，discusses Zhang Zai oftransforming Confucian hierarchycal love toward universal love.The third section foreternal peace, discusses the universal love ethics environment, and Datong idealsociety. Fourth quarter Political not imitate the Xia Shang Zhou principle will bemistake, discussing the construction of specific means of Datong world: JingTianZhi,feudal, patriarchal clan system, is by the rule of love. Chapter iii Zhang Zai universalcompared with Mohism universal love. Mainly divided into5parts, discussed theirdifferent, the basis of love, the object of love, the implementation of love, the Social class, the ultimate concern.The final conclusion part, evaluation of Zhang Zai ethics love’s view, draw ZhangZai love thought is the highest peak of humanitarian spirit of Chinese culture, butin terms of dealing with human relations, and he is not able to construct a universalethics of true love, eventually can only rely on more powerful authoritarian toimplementation. It is not so much progress as retrogression. But Zhang zai’s concernfor human destiny, is indeed worthy of our praise.