Late Qing Yi Lee Concept Study

The value of interest and virtue in the late Qing Dynasty is the transitional period of the traditional values of this kind, and there exists a variery of values about interest and virtue. This thesis mainly analyzes the evolution and development of the values about virtue and interest, its characteristics and the inner, historical and logic relationship among different represents. At the same time, the auther discusses the social background in which the values of virtue and interest of the late Qing Dynasty evolved and the influence of social history on the ethics and morality. Besides, the author probes the adjustment and regulatory effect of the collective-individual relationship on the relation between individual and the society.From the perspective of the historical development, the evolution of the values about virtue and interest of the late Qing Dynasty can be divided into the following stages. Qpium war stage;Westernization Movement stage;the Reform Movement of 1898 stage;The Revolution of 1911. From the perspective of the horizontal development, the value about virtue and interest is more advanced and richer in content than the traditional ones. It can be divided into two types, one emphasizing virtue and the other emphasizing interest. The general tendency is the shift from emphasizing virtue to emphasizing interest.The conception of virtue in the late Qing Dynasty is always in change, of which the content is in constant change and development, and it is the denial of the old idea and the construction of a new idea of virtue. In other words, it's the shift from the feudal ethics to capital ethics, and the main characteristic is the shift from the moral principle to interest principle, from value morality to rule morality, from other-discipline to self-discipline, and from emphasizing self morality to emphasizing public morality.The idea of interest in the late Qing Dynasty also underwent change ,and the main characteristic of its development is the shift from the traditional value which emphasises agriculture and ignoring merchant to one emphasizing industry and merchant, from regarding it as a taboo to mention interest to talking about interest when discussing merchant , from criticizing luxury and pursuing economy to criticizing economy and pursuing luxury, from agriculture-centered to agriculture, industry and merchant centered. The development of the value about interest is progressive, and it's a gradual process of Chinese thinking being sophisticated. From the conception of the western levels of the idea about interest, it does not only involve individual self-interest, but also involve national interest.The developmental tendency of the values about virtue and interest of the late Qing Dynasty is the transition from the traditional idea emphasizing virtue and ignoringinterest to the modern idea emphasizing both virtue and interest. This is one feature, and another feature is that it is closely connected with the defense of the nation, and has apparent age characteristics, and it is the heritage and development of the traditional values.The individual-others relationship under the virtue and interest values of the late Qing Dynasty involves self-interest and other-interest, private and group relationships, and it in corporates the self-interest of the western culture into the traditional group relationships, which emphasizes the integration of individual and society, the responsibility of the individual for the society, and avoids the existence of self-interest, and impress some Chinese feature on the western reasonable self-interest and culturally, it takes on a double values of west and China.Emphasizing both virtue and interest, the virtue and interest values of the late Qing Dynasty does not become a dominant model, and does not fully put into practice. But its development agrees with the historical development, and the social development tendency, and is far-sighted and progressive, and has broad influence on a variety of social aspects.