The Research Of Tan Sitong’s Political Ethics Thought Of The Benevolence

The second half of the 19 th century, is one of the most important turning point in the history of modern China, is also the most concern, active and full of sense of responsibility of advanced intellectuals. Tan Sitong as a outstanding representative of this kind of intellectuals completed the masterpiece Benevolence in 1896. Benevolence is the brand of the times and reflects the social contradictions and conflicts of the late qing dynasty.Benevolence is a total of around fifty thousand words, and divided into admission, benevolence define and two parts of the book. The first part of the book has thirty articles, and the second part has twenty. The content of this book is complicated and abundant that is not easy to understand. In this book, combined with the traditional Chinese Confucian and buddhist thought, and western science and democracy thought, established the highest ethical principle of benevolence-open-equality, Tan Sitong was based on the benevolence monism, eventually formed the benevolence political ethics thought. The best and the most important part is the criticism of the feudal autocratic system and the feudal ethical laws. These thoughts is the essence of Chinese and western cultural fusion. In the society at that time, these are a kind of bold attempt of saving the nation from subjugation, reforming the political, and enlightening minds, which reflected Tan Sitong’s yearning for the western bourgeois democracy, freedom, and equality. the later generations to have the extremely profound influence on social change. This produces a far-reaching influence for the later generations.As the representative work of Tan Sitong, Benevolence is the spiritual essence of the late qing dynasty, and the forerunner of the may fourth enlightenment. Although because of the limitations in theory and class leads to a gap between the ideal and reality, the ideal of building a freedom, democracy, equality society was not implemented, the benevolence still has very important academic value and historical value. The general equality concept of interpersonal relationship and the reform spirit of burst the snare is of great significance for our modern society.