Research Of Liu Zongzhou’s Non-germination Versus Germination Thought

Liu Jishan is an important Neo-Confucianist in the danasty of Song and Ming. Many researches have been done from various perspectives. Different form these researches, I develop a new perspective that is non-germination versus germination to the research of the philosophical thought of Jishan.By the analysis of the content of non-germination versus germination in Jishan’s philosophy, we can seize the meaning of his philosophy and reveal the feature of his philosophy.The first chapter aim to show what is Jishans philosophical problem, then I primarily give the rationality to make research using the perspective of non-germination versus germination. In the last,the first chapter confirm the three stages of development of Jishan’s thought by analyzing the changes about the content of non-germination versus germination.The second chapter and the third chapter are the core of my dissertation.I consider shendu(慎独)and chengyi(诚意)as the keynote of Jishan’s philosophy. The second chapter makes a representation of zJishans theory of shendu by the analysis of his theory of non-germination versus germination from the perspective of xingti(性体)while The third chapter makes a representation of Jishan’s theory of chengyi by the analysis of his theory of non-germination versus germination from the perspective of xinti(心体).In the fourth chapter I make a discussion about renpu(人谱)which is one of the most important work about self-cultivation in order to reveal the cultural dimension of his theory of non-germination versus germination.There are two appendixes in the last part of my dissertation, one is the original meaning of shendu. Though the research of unearthed literature this appendix firstly aims to explore the original meaning of shendu in ancient times,then I make a review of some important philosophers’interpretations about shendu and finally I get such conclusion that compared to Zhengxuan Or Zhuzi, Jishan’s interpretations about shendu is most coincide with the meaning of unearthed literature about shendu.The other appendix is a brief chronicle about Jishan’s study and life which is based on Liu zhuo and Yaoming da’s chronicle of Jishan.