On Kang Youwei's Thoughts Of Moral Salvation

Kang Youwei was a well-known politician,educator and thinker in China during the Hundred Days. In the most critical moment of national peril, he took up the important task of national salvation and Enlightenment bravely. In the launching of political salvation, educational salvation and material salvation he also had a profound ideology of moral salvation. The thoughts of his moral salvation were divided into two periods, roughly bounded by the 1911 Revolution.Before the 1911 Revolution, Kang Youwei stood the forefront of the times, he looked to the new bourgeois ethics to save the nation which included Western and the Confucian:he went to explore the origin and role of moral; he claimed the ethics requirements should be re-shi, re-Shun and he promoted re-chi, Lord of equal moral values; he advocated moral standards of seeking happiness and moral self-cultivation of hearts filled with love.However, Kang Youwei'thoughts of moral salvation finally felt into dire straits. Before the 1911 Revolution, The ideology of his moral salvation had dropped into contradiction and confusion:the moral salvation and material salvation, the theory of human nature and "can not bear one's heart", equality Ethics and ceremony of the sequence, Reason and Desire and hearts filled with love, Kang's confused time estimation. Later after the 1911 Revolution Kang had a lot of criticism on new moral and hoped to save the country from peril by restoring the feudal Confucian ethics.It is Kang Youwei'arrogant and inferior psychology and the times which lacked sufficient conditions to change the system of the ethic that caused the hardship of his moral salvation thinking. Kang formed a arrogant and inferiority psychology and personality in the process of his growing. Before the 1911 Revolution, arrogant psychology was dominant in his psychology, resulting in its moral self-contradictory theory. After the 1911 Revolution Kang became more self-esteem as a result of his failed politics, and this inferior psychology led the return of the his moral thinking; Another reason is the times which lacked sufficient conditions to change in the era of the ethic:Chinese and Western cultures was bitterly conflict. The Western social ills affected the enthusiasm of the Chinese advanced intellectuals to study form the West. The primary task of China was national independence, and the development of economic and culture was poor.Although Kang Youwei's thoughts of moral salvation felt into dire straits, there was still an important position and very valuable inspiration in history.