He Lin's Modern Construction Of Confucianism

In the 1930 s and 1940 s,when the aggression of foreign culture and the new cultural movement were over-corrected in Confucianism,He Lin opened up the modern construction of Confucianism.He became the modern new opportunity through the modernization of Confucianism as an opportunity to find national self-confidence.Scholars who came from Confucianism later.He summed up the success and failure of the development of Confucianism since the New Culture Movement,and hoped that by constructing a new Confucian ideology system,the Chinese culture based on Confucianism can be revived.He Lin’s New-Confucianism,based on the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties,especially the Lu Wang Xinxue,draws on the rationalism of Western speculative philosophy and combines the modern development trend.The New-Confucianism he founded absorbs the essence of Chinese culture and Western classical philosophy.His theoretical system has both strong philosophical thinking and profound practical concern.Through the combination of Western philosophy,religion,art and Confucianism,ethics,poetry and teaching,combined with the needs of modern society,he gives the egoism and Mozi’s thought of love as the representative of Yang Zhu with new morality.Value reveals the ethical ideals and humanistic care under the Western rational thoughts.He Lin fully borrowed the strengths of many Chinese and foreign philosophers’ ideas and created an ideological system based on "heart" and using ancient and modern Chinese and foreign cultures.He used the structure of the body,the knowing,and the time and space to analyze the culture,and thoroughly carried out various cultural claims such as the "Chinese-Western" theory,the "complete Westernization" theory,and the "Chinese-based culture" theory after the Opium War.Reflection.On this basis,it points out the new ways and directions of the construction of Neo-Confucianism.He uses time and space to reveal the eternality of "rationality",and the relationship between "rationality" and "heart",objective and subjective,inner "heart" and external "rationality".Methodologically,dialectic and dialectical views,intuitionism,and methods of reconciling Eastern and Western cultures are proposed.He Lin re-examines and reflects on the concerns of Confucianism on people and society from a modern perspective,and aims to provide theoretical support for modernization.Moral idealism is the foundation of its new Confucianism.Idealism and self-realization are the main features of its thoughts.In terms of freedom of will,he insists on idealism from idealism,ideal or rationality as the way to realize freedom of will,and describes the realization of freedom of will as the unity of human will,the will of the object,and the will of the universe.His doctrine of knowing and doing,is also based on morality,looking for the point of integration of knowledge and action,and transforming the natural unity of knowledge and understanding into the value of knowing and doing.His contribution is to create a groundbreaking construction direction for Confucianism with an open and novel interpretation method.