On.shu-hsien Liu’s Modern Interpretation Of "one Principle With Many Manifestations"

As one of the representatives of contemporary New-Confucianism, liu shu-hsien pay constant attention to Whether Chinese traditional culture, especially Confucianism,still has the vitality in today’s multi-cultural development or not, and how to exert it. liu shu-hsien devote himself to seeking solutions of contradiction between the diversity in the process of globalization, so that as for the way for the traditional Confucian to seek for contemporary development. He highlighted their efforts on analyzing the substance of “one Principle with many Manifestations”.The concept of “one Principle with many Manifestations” has long been accepted, in liu shu-hsien’s opinion, it is a "consistent spirit" throughout the pre-qin to the modern Confucian. Shu-hsien Liu elaborates his idea on the basis of the Confucianism in Song dynasty. The paper confessed the background of " one Principle with many Manifestations " modern interpretation first.The cultural philosophy dilemma is facing adverse conditions now, the paper follows up the development tack of traditional Confucianism since the May Fourth movement, and takes Shu-hsien Liu’s theory as the key problem to analyze the development tendency of philosophy. And then summarizes the gains from Shu-hsien Liu’s theory.Reconstructions like cultural reconstruction, Confucianism reconstruction are the main parts of philosophy reconstruction. In a word, the lack of vigor and vitality of all factors leads to the cultural stagnation.In such cultural dilemma, Shu-hsien Liu choose to reinterpret “one Principle with many Manifestations” is partly influenced by traditional culture. “one Principle with many Manifestations” have different meaning starting from Qin dynasty to New-Confucian period.There are many kinds of modern annotation about “one Principle with many Manifestations” in shu-hsien Liu’s opinion, about “Ren”and “Shengsheng”; transcendence and immanence, Two lines of the principleand Settle down,the comparison between Chinese and western culture and so on, all of these are concretely displayed by “one Principle with many Manifestations”.Last part,the author analyzes Shu-hsien Liu’s modern annotation about “one Principle with many Manifestations”,it is full of Methodology meaning and cultural meaning.