The Thesis About The Taoism Thought Of Fang Dongmei

Anhui modern philosopher Fang Dongmei (1899-1977)who called "Poet and Philosopher" engaged in academic research for fifty-three years of his life and he was widely praised by academics.He born in Anhui Tong Cheng was a descendant of the philosopher Fang Yizhi and Tong Cheng Essayist Fang Bao. Fang Dongmei was influenced by Confucianism in his childhood, but was " Fond of Taoism book". He liked reading Western philosophy in college and liked Buddhism during the war. In his old age, he had a systematic explanation of various ideas of Chinese philosophies. As he said it, "From the sources at home and school, I was a Confucian; in the temperament, I was a Taoist; in religious interest, I am a Buddhist; In addition, training on the scholarship, I was a Western scholar. " From a certain perspective, Fang Dongmei was consistent for the favor of Taoism.This article has a perspective of Taoism interpretation of Fang Dongmei, including Taoist metaphysics, Taoism methodology, spirit of Taoist art, Taoist view of life, Taoism and Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, Daoism and the discussion in such areas as cultural relations. The Author strives to restore "Taoism temperament" of the philosopher, as it was.First of all, Taoist metaphysical thinking of Fang Dongmei mainly from two aspects, includes Taoist Truth, Rule of the Life and Taoist cosmology. The Truth comes from four aspects of the Taoist Truth, Taoist Function, Taoist Phase and Taoist Characterization; The Taoist world view shows the performance of a life, Sensitive, moral emptiness, and "spillover" theory of creation.Secondly, the Chinese are cool thinker, showing noble human thought, emotion feeling and great ration, which come together to carry forward the formation of a great ideology, reflecting the humanistic spirit of Exceeding. Fang Dongmei shows on Taoism from three aspects, including the artistic way to express the Taoist thinkings on "the back to" spirit of Exceeding; Zhuang Zi's "perfect person little, God Reactive, sage unknown"; the Liberation of Mahayana Buddhism in the spirit of Exceeding can be similar to the spirit of Exceeding of Zhuangzi. In the facing to reality, three principles follows, "the principle of individual and value", "Exceeding principle" and "spontaneous principle of freedom".Thirdly, Fong Dongmei attached great importance to the spirit of Taoist art, standing for "connected to philosophy and Poetry", his personal temperament, the vision of philosophy exploring and the interpretation of theory language are made through a rich poetic temperament. He likened the image of "space" to describe the incredible Taoism Realm, this silence, poetic, "space" Realm, pointing to the spirit of Taoist art; thoughtful, Exceeding and "plane promotion" are Taoist art accessing channels; spirit of Taoist art of sexual and other characteristics of the metaphysics; As a "Poet and Philosopher", Fang Dongmei practically Explained of the art spirit of Taoist philosophy.Fourth, Fang Dongmei discussed features of Taoism, philosophy of life and political ideals. Taoism features comes with three areas:natural sights-Taoist "by-pass system consistent theory", the sight of exceeding and liberation-the "Dao Vision"-Taoism "of personality to transcend the Triple"; philosophy of life from the Chinese sage's philosophy of life, the cultivation of philosophy of life, philosophy of life to achieve and so explain. As a professional philosopher, Fang Dongmei had his own unique experience and understanding about the Taoist political ideals, the positive Taoism Moral outlook, the Taoist political ideal with the concept of tolerance.Fifth, from the ways of Buddhist translation, we can see that Chinese people to accept Buddhism depending on what Taoist were translated into terms, "choosing rather those what, in order to be with the main concepts of Buddhism". Taoism and Chinese Mahayana Buddhist philosophy are same mainly in several ways:Nirvana eternal ideas fits the idea of natural simplicity of Taoism; Buddhism and Taoism have broad fiting in the spirit of tolerance; Buddhism "Words can not but say" fits "Dao can be the eternal Tao";Buddhist "middle way" fits the Taoist "ring". "Six or seven Sects ", Monk Zhao, Mahayana Buddhism Monk dao as a prelude to the three phases of Chinese Buddhism, have been influenced by the Taoist.Sixth, Chinese philosophy of Fang Dongmei goes against the "orthodoxy" concept, butrather "learningsystems" principle, advocat ing on the basis of full respect for the facts, examining various philosophical and cultural equally. The philosophers in Song Dynasty abstinence personality traits in the spirit of Taoist art under the influence of the formation of elite,; Taoism points a way with the spirit prospects of the intellectuals; from the development of the Confucianism, Song Confucians are rich in old Taoist influence. Fang Dongmei pointed:"Neo-Confucian list of these are the number of trained Taoist influence", such as Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, Zhang Zai, Cheng brothers, Zhu Xi, Lu Xiangshan, Wang Yangming, Wang Fuzhi, Yan Yuan and so on.Seventh, the visual field of comparing is the important feature of Fang Dongmei philosophy. The raditional Chinese philosophy pays attention to "the general harmony" and the pursuit of the spiritual realm of "harmonious, harmony".Through sub-interpret the Confucian absorbed the spirit of Taoism harmony; Buddhist guided by the spirit of Taoism in Chinese culture. The analysis of the Western "values points" of Fang Dongmei results in the history of human degradation, the deterioration from three stages:began in Plato, worse in the Middle Ages, completely degenerated in modern times. However, the "divide" idea has also brought the values of the rapid development of human technology and material living standards.