Between Substance And Function

The paper integrates Xiong Shi-li's logical construction of "oneness between essence and application" with the transformation of his thoughts in the earlier and later period, reveals the objective pursue in Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy, and cleans up the new direction of the construction on Epistemology in his later period which has been neglected in a long time, thus demonstrates a new possible dimension beside the Moral Metaphysics of the Modern Neo—Confucianism.Chapter 1 investigates Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy View. Xiong Shi-li thinks that the philosophy has outstanding national characteristics, but he is not a pure nationalist, he argues to create a new philosophy through the combination of the Chinese philosophy and Western philosophy, thus lays the groundwork for the transplantation of the modern western civilization and the solution of the fundamental problems of the universe and life. The problems about the trueness of the cosmology and life value which have been demonstrated in his early philosophical realization are the core of Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy, so we can't separate the consistency in Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy.Chapter 2 investigates the philosophical course of Xiong Shi-li's substance-function philosophy. "Oneness between substance and function " is a dynamic processes, the difference in Xiong Shi-li's philosophy of the later period and the earlier period is actual a complement and perfect of this dynamic processes, the earlier Substance-cover-function and later Function-cover-substance are the two constituent parts of the same connotation frame, so there is not a Later Turning in Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy. The two views of the scholar circle:first, Substance-cover-function and Function-cover-substance is incoherent; second, the later Function-cover-substance is lack of independence, are ill-founded.Combining the Yi-ology, Chapter 3 reveals that Sheng-sheng is the soul of Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy, and demonstrates it is in the core position in Substance-cover-function, Function-cover-substance and "oneness between essence and application". As the core proposition of the Yi-ontology, Sheng-sheng has timeliness in itself. In the substance-function philosophy of Xiong Shi-li, Sheng-sheng passes through the Substance and Function in the form of Heng-zhuan and Liu-xing,and offers the prerequisite for "oneness between essence and application" in the form of Xi-pi-cheng-bian. Giving life to substance-function philosophy, Sheng-sheng makes the philosophy of later Xiong Shi-li can constantly innovate and makes substance-function philosophy develop to its perfect level.Combining the whole observing, Chapter 4 reveals the basic approach of the view of mind and matter. For Xiong Shi-li attributes the problem of mind-matter to the two aspects of Function, his view of mind and matter can get rid of the contradiction of Morality and Intellectuality non-link, therefore he can solve the problem of mind-matter in the background of substance-function philosophy. The paper dissects Idea of Two-origins in Epistemology of later Xiong Shi-li from Essay on Mind, which is an important discovery in the study of Xiong Shi-li's philosophy. Through the experimentalist method of "Bold hypothesis careful verification" and Buddhist Logic, Xiong links Wang Yang-ming's "The Extension of Innate Knowledge" and Zhu Xi's "From Object-observing to Knowledge" together, therefore he integrates the modern scientific method into the Confucian inwardness theory. This is an outstanding example of the theory of Inner sage out new king of Neo-Confucianism,and is the stage of completion of substance-function philosophy.Chapter 5 evaluates Xiong Shi-li's Philosophy in the background of the whole development history of the Neo-Confucianism, and investigates its meaning and illumination to the further development of Chinese philosophy. As the paper notes, Neo-Confucianism took two roads from Essentials for Reading the Classics which was published in 1945, one is the "moral metaphysics" of Mou Zongsan, the other is the unique approach of Xiong Shili through the continued improvement of the system of Substance-function-non-binary. In the efforts of the theory of Inner sage out new king of Neo-Confucianism, Xiong Shi-li's Theory of Two-Origins is a more positive approach than Mou-Zongsan's idea of Self-negation. At the same time, the overseas modern Confucians always stress Xiong Shi-li's later shift and dissatisfied with it, this can be regarded as a straying from the orthodoxy.