Study On Cai Yuanpei’s Philosophical Thought

Cai Yuanpei is great thinkers, educators and revolutionaries. His freedom ofthought, science East and West, in the period of transition from the old Republican, heintroduced Western knowledge, and the combination of traditional Chinese culture,ideology and theory expounded, and promote China’s progress. This paper attempts toCai proven philosophy, and thus contemplation of his aesthetic philosophy, education,ethics in performance.The first chapter focuses on the historical background and ideological origins Caiphilosophy formed. Born in internal and external Cai Qing Dynasty, this turbulentsocial background makes Cai continue to explore the need to adapt to the era ofacademic thought. Cai philosophy deeply affected both traditional Chinese culture,but also marked by the stigma of Western philosophy, especially Kant,Schopenhauer’s ideasThe second chapter analyzes the core philosophy of Cai. The worldview, Cai thatthe world is divided into "phenomenon in the world" and the "real world" andadvocated unity between the two is that "the will." In epistemology, Cai believessociety is constantly evolving, and that man is composed of inorganic "turn organicmatter" and then "turn for the animals," and then the last man, which upholds theepistemological development. In dealing with the relationship between people, Caiadvocated dialectical harmony:"moderate."The third chapter describes Cai philosophy in its aesthetics, ethics, education inthe implementation and expression. Cai believes America is a spiritual product, whichcomes from the emotional and rational one, which is still around in the "will" thatpoint, ignoring the beauty of objectivity and subjectivity. In ethics, Cai advocated"moral evolution" that everyone can get the ultimate happiness. In terms of education,Cai advocated the ultimate goal of education is freedom, independence, equality, inessence, that education can achieve all-round development of humanity.Chapter IV philosophical standpoint, the evaluation of the intrinsic historicalcontribution Cai made the development of academic thinking, and digging which isconducive to the development of contemporary social thought ingredients.This paper aims to study the philosophy Cai, Cai introduced in the introductionof domestic and philosophy, while constantly enrich and deepen its content, which is the development of modern philosophy has played an important role, but also for thedevelopment of the construction of our society today there are very importantinspiration and reference value.