Guo Song-tao’s Viewpoint Of Doctrines And Utensils

Under the time background of "the West enters into China, really becomes a bigchange about heaven and earth",Doctrines and Utensils、noumenon and function etc.become a hot topic again.The reason is how to handle the Eastern and Westerncivilizations and resist foreign aggression,which turns into bone of contention at thattime.while at this moment the eastward transmission of western sciences’s progressconstantly speeds up along with gateway of a country which is opened, between old andnew、China and the west in the cultural field,contradiction is more sharp,and conflicts aremore severe. In this background, Guo Song-tao constantly watches the risk of the West,participate in various social practice actively, and sum up the experience and lessons todeal with foreign affairs constantly, and laid a good foundation for forming device view.Especially his trip to Europe, to make his viewpoint of Doctrines and Utensilslevel upfrom directly perceived through the senses to rational knowledge level. This is animportant turning point in the viewpoint of Doctrines and Utensils.On the basis of inheriting and criticizing Chinese traditional the viewpoint ofDoctrines and Utensils, Guo Songtao puts forward the viewpoint of new doctrines andutensils having vivid time features—pluralism of Doctrines and Utensils，there is bothDoctrines and Utensils in the West,and the world is polyphyletic of Doctrines andUtensils.Guo Songtao’s pluralism of Doctrines and Utensils directly decides and affectshis cognition about the Debate of the civilized and the uncivilized,which makes hisviewpoint of the civilized and the uncivilized not only break through traditional theDebate of the civilized and the uncivilized, but aslo have vivid time features,he points outwestern country which is intituled "the uncivilized" by vast the literary intelligentsia classhaving more advanced civilizationthus,with the result that he claims roundly studywestern politics, economy, science and technology and cultural education system,etc.therefrom, Guo Songtao puts forward very characteristic the method of withstanding thecivilized and the uncivilized,that is winning by reasoning and treating them with duerespect. therefore,Guo Songtao’s pluralism of Doctrines and Utensils have Very strongrealistic color and rationalism colour,becoming Guo Songtao’s philosophical thought amajor feature.By comparison through with traditional Doctrines and Utensils in China,westernizationists’ Doctrines and Utensils in China,reformist’s Doctrines andUtensils in China represented by Wang Tao and Zheng Guan-ying,summarize andconclude the main feature of Guo Songtao’s Doctrines and Utensils which isbreakthrough,transcendence and advancement.Guo Songtao’s pluralism of Doctrines and Utensils has the enlightenmentsiginificance of developing civil wisdom, realistic guidance meaning in allusion totemporal times and reference siginificance in allusion to modern society. But GuoSongtao’s view of Doctrines and Utensils is still incompleted and has the tendency ofthinking high of western civilization due to the age limitatations.