An Introduction To Wang Fuzhi’s Political Philosophy Thoughts Of His Historical Essays

Political philosophy analyzes and judges political affairs, performs similar functions of The Spring and Autumn Annals:To clarify three kings’ way, to discern human affairs’ law, to differentiate oversteps and doubts, to distinguish the right from the wrong, to stop dithering and make up mind, to let no worthy action and good man be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity to evil words deeds and villains, to resuscitate perished kingdoms, to renew broken hereditary-houses, to correct mistakes, and to promote declined things of value. This endeavors not only try to understand the nature of political affairs, but also try to civilize the public through this process, aiming at buliding a good political order, or establishing an ideal life that suits humannity.Wang Fuzhi lived in the transitional period between Ming and Qing dynasty which seemed to him:etiquettes collapsed,musics were spoiled, Huaxia has deteriorated into barbarians. he felt extremely painful and endeavored to find the reasons and to explore the way to revive the Chinese nation and made remarkable achievements. his political philosophy thoughts are critical to chinese survival and development, he restes his hopes on chinese posterity eagerly, conscientious chinese sympathize with him, this has been proved and would be proved further by history.Chuanshan’s learning fells on historical essays. seeing that state system and regime are two themes of politics research and political philosophy reflections, this thesis unfolds from the two peculiar perspectives of state system and regime, then delineates the ideal life of Wang Fuzhi’s judgement and elucidates the significance of his political philosophy in this time.Surveying Wang Fuzhi’s political philosophy from the perspective of state system mainly introduces his governing legality theory and his unique Confucian orthodoxy through his critique of traditional legitimacy and traditional Confucian orthodoxy, then expounds his distinguishment between Huaxia and barbarians mainly based on cultural norms.all these expoundings intends to introduces Wang Fuzhi’s unique opinions on political legitimacy or legality. This part also includes Wang Fuzhi’s views on the status behavior norms and the integrating rules of kings intelligentsia and folks.Firstly, surveying Wang Fuzhi’s political philosophy from the perspective of regime introduces his opinion of the historical inevitability from the system of enfeoffment to the system of prefecture and county, with this transformation, system establishments should change accordingly, then introduces Wang Fuzhi’s views on official position-designs and administrative strategies of military administration and civil administration under the system of prefecture and county separately based on his opinions that military administration and civil administration should be seperated and military force shoud be hided while civilizations shoud be advanced continually. On discussing military administration, this part will interpret Wang Fuzhi’s views on why soldiers and folks, correspondingly, military administration and civil administration should be seperated, how to place forces and to train soldiers. On discussing Civil administration, this part will interpret Wang Fuzhi’s views on how the central and local governments should be built and integrated, how to strengthen government’s grass-roots work such as inspiring county magistrates and mananging lower officials,etcIn the last part, the thesis will delineate the ideal life of Wang Fuzhi’s judgement from six perspectives and elucidate the significance of his political philosophy in this time in the background of the crisis of Modernity. the thesis points out that Wang Fuzhi’s political philosophy is a deep undercurrent of our life world, a kind of politcal theory which emphasizes virtues which confronts sharply with the politcal theory that is instrumental rationalism-oriented, his political theory depicts an ideal world which concerns with our real life, the greatness of heaven and earth will bring Chuanshan’s learning to the focus and agitate the chinese someday!...