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The philosophical morality of “Tao” in Confucianism
Author: Chen Huiping (Wudong Master Fan Philosophy Department)
Source: “Philosophy Research” Issue 7, 2017
Time: Confucius was in the 2568th year of Dingyou month 3rd day on Wuyin
Jesus February 15, 2018
Content summary: Can Confucianism, especially Confucianism, be regarded as philosophy? This is a dispute between China and foreign countries, and this article gives a definite answer. The essential regulations of philosophy as a “category” have two aspects, namely, exploring the most basic general principles of the universe and life and the most basic value fantasy of human beings. The Confucianism has these two meanings, which expresses the self-consciousness and personality of philosophy. The two meanings of the Confucian Way are developed around the “nature and the way of heaven”. They also discuss and answer Kant’s four philosophical questions, but their theoretical purpose is different from the latter. This article demonstrates that the Confucianism has both the same philosophical character as Eastern philosophy and has a distinction between them.
Keywords: Confucianism/Philosophy/Tao/Kant
Does Confucianism have philosophical morality? If we can determine whether “Well, Aunt Wu will see you again.” Then the value of Confucianism will be like the long river of wisdom of the world philosophical world. Judging from the philosophical historical landscapes of the East and China, asking such questions is not an indelible way.
In terms of the history of Eastern philosophy, starting from Hegel, the mainstream philosophical community in the East basically denies that Chinese thinking has the value of philosophicalism. Hegel believed that “the Eastern thinking must be eliminated from the history of philosophy” including China. His evaluation of Confucian philosophy was extremely humble: despite Confucius’ “teaching is the most respected authority among Chinese people”, “Confucius’ teachings were once moved for a while in the era of Lebniz”, his thinking was only some “common virtues” that could be found in any ethnic group, and “the philosophy that he thought about was not at all”; although “Yi Shu” touched and “the consciousness of pure thinking, it was not profound, and only stayed in the purest thinking.” (See Hegel, pages 98, 119, 120) Until the beginning of this century, the famous French philosopher Delhida gave a repeated view of “China has no philosophy, just think.” (See Delhida, page 36)
From the history of Chinese philosophy, Chinese philosophy was born in the May Fourth period as a modern subject. After that, it can have Chinese traditional thinking including Confucianism and the “philosophy” as the East haveThere have always been differences in the common theoretical connotation and other issues. Until the beginning of this century, the film aircraft met those people. The discussion on the “compliance with the law” of Chinese philosophy is still one of the issues that the academic community focuses on. After this discussion, it seemed that a strong anti-Shieldorfist academic complaint was formed. This suggestion is that if we use the model and concept of “philosophy” from the East to analyze the traditional Chinese thinking including Confucianism, it is to “the westward point” to the east to the east to the original face. This has the same connotation as the mainstream Eastern philosophy from Hegel to Delhi that the philosophical value of Confucianism and the entire Chinese traditional thinking, that is, “philosophy” is a thinking moral that is unique to the East but lacks in China. (See Jo Qing)
1. Philosophy is the “Tao” of Confucianism
In view of the above assessment, this article mainly uses the explanation of the pre-Qin Confucianism to discuss the philosophical morality of Confucianism. This is not a standard to measure whether Confucianism can have philosophical morality, but as Zhang Dainian said: “Beholding philosophy as a category” is the “general name” that includes “special cases” such as Chinese philosophy and Oriental philosophy.” (Zhang Dainian, 1982, preface, page 2) This is a philosophical morality developed from the coordination attributes and essential regulations of philosophy as “category” to demonstrate the way of Confucianism.
What are the coordinated attributes and essential regulations of philosophical “categories”? Actually, it is the problem of philosophical science. Despite the many differences in definitions about this, these definitions have two aspects in common: First, it is to believe that philosophy is the question of exploring the most basic general principles of the universe and how to understand these principles, such as what is the final origin of the universe, what is the ultimate meaning of life, and the most basic problems of understanding these universe and life. Can we understand and how to understand, as american scholar Wolf said, the task of philosophers is to use “studying the universe” and “studying humanity” as the “two major axes” (Wolf, page 21); one is to believe that philosophy explores the most basic value fantasy issues of humanity, such as Swiss scholar Piaget in the United StatesBaocai.comBaocai The “Humanities and Social Sciences” research report written by the National Education and Culture Group said: Philosophy “all schools of thought have approved this point, and it is the responsibility of philosophy to achieve various human values as its responsibility.” (Pi Yajie, page 8) How can this important point of view and value fantasy of truth, goodness and beauty be integrated, how can the three be unified, truth, goodness and beauty be pursued with human nature, the cultivation of truth, goodness and beauty and fantasy personality, etc. Obviously, the assessment of Wolf and Piaget is important to settle in Eastern philosophy; while ConfucianismBoth aspects are considered in the pursuit of “Tao”. When the philosopher Western Zhou, who was familiar with Confucianism, first translated philosophy into “philosophy”, it was precisely how to use “Tao” to describe philosophy: “To discuss today’s Tao, human nature, and the way of establishing religion, ・ヒロヽヒ——Translation is called philosophy”, “Confucianism in the East and the West, The Philosophy’s pronunciation of the continent (the quotation of philosophy – quoted by the quotation) are all the ways of today to establish people, which is actually the same.” (quoted from Wang Jiaxing, pages 43 and 40) The way of heaven and human nature here point to the general principles of the universe and life, while establishing religion and establishing people refer to the principle of establishing the highest value. “Tao” has this connotation, which is related to its original meaning of path, as Mencius said: “Tao is being prosperous“. (Mencius: Gaozi II. The following quotes are only the title of the article) The way is spread throughout the country, and there is nothing to do. “Tao” is thus extended to the general way of the universal principles of the universe and life. For example, “Tao” in “The Metaphysical Way” in “The Metaphysical Way”, and “Tao” refers to the general truth of the universe and life that transcends the physical objects; the way guides the purpose of the target and clearly defines the goal, and “Tao” is thus extended to the value way of expressing value fantasy, such as “Tao” in Confucius “The differences between Taos are not mutually slander” (“The Voice of the Words·Wild of the Spirit”. “Tao” refers to the value view of people. In fact, not only Confucianism, but also the “Tao” of the pre-Qin monk. The chapter “Zangzi·National” regards the zodiac as the product of “Taoism will be the rupture of the whole country”. The so-called “Taoism” is not only an exploration of the “sect” (original), “essence” (subtle), and “true” (original) of all things in the country, and is related to the value fantasy of rebuilding the “way of the inner sage and the outer king”. That is to say, all of you try to master the most basic and general “Tao” of the universe and life from the perspective of differences, and to highlight the value of the inner sage and the outer king from the orientation of differences. The Western Zhou Dynasty used the “Tao” of Confucianism as the philosophical name, which was considered a philosophical self-perception that explored the broad principles of the universe and life and the highest value fantasy. Mencius’s following words reflect this point: “The poem says: ‘The creation of things and things have good virtues. The common principles of being easy to understand are good virtues.’ Confucius said: ‘For this poem, does it understand! Therefore, things must have good virtues; the common principles of being easy to understand are good virtues’.” (Gao
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