Research On Liang Qichao’s View Of Rights

Rights are the Metaphysical elements of human existence,and the concept of rights is common in humanistic thoughts at all times and in all countries.With the development of modern capitalism,human history began to change from ancient identity society to modern contract society.The concept of rights is regarded as the basic ethics of contract society.With the influence of capitalist globalization on Modern China,the concept of rights has also become a major trend in modern Chinese ideological circles.As one of the most important thinkers in modern China,Liang Qichao was a pioneer who advocated the concept of rights.Liang Qichao regarded the concept of rights as an essential element of new person personality.The meaning of Liang Qichao’s view of rights includes: the awareness of rights is the basic characteristic of human being,rights arise in competition,the revival of individual rights is the foundation of national rejuvenation,and rights are closely related to legislative power.Liang Qichao’s view of rights is based on the "hardening" of the debate of Mencius in the pre-Qin period and the philosophy of Yang Zhu for himself.Chen Ming’s awareness of rights is the first stipulation of human beings,and Chen Ming’s right means that "everyone does not lose anything".At the same time,Liang Qichao’s view of rights has nothing from Rousseau’s theory of natural rights and Yelin’s theory of rights competition in Europe.He believes that rights originate from talent and everyone enjoys them equally,but the process of realizing rights cannot leave competition for a moment;In addition,Liang Qichao’s view of rights also has nothing from the British Bentham utilitarianism and the historical view of social evolution.He believes that the view of rights includes profound utilitarian factors,so as to oppose the tendency of Confucian authoritarianism to "hate profit" and "oppose profit";It also believes that we must replace moralism with the concept of rights in order to comply with the general trend of social evolution and achieve national rejuvenation.Liang Qichao’s view of rights reflects the autonomy,competition and utility of modern Chinese ideal personality.Liang Qichao tried to unify the debate between heaven and man,reason and desire and the debate between the group and himself under the new historical conditions.The advancement of Liang Qichao’s view of rights is reflected in: Chen Ming’s freedom of personality and the legitimacy of personality development;Individual freedom and individual development are not only the necessary elements of human development,but also the premise of social development.The limitations of Liang Qichao’s view of rights are reflected in his failure to realize the tension between the view of rights and group purposes,the basic relationship between the construction of the view of rights and the development of commodity economy,and the close relationship between the construction of the view of rights and the construction of national capacity.Liang Qichao’s view of rights is a cross-section of the history of modern Chinese thought.It can help people see the particularity of the interpretation of a modern western classic concept under the background of modern Chinese society and the inclusiveness and complexity of the history of modern Chinese thought.