Modern Neo-Confucian Philosophy Of History

Modern Neo-Confucianism was an academic school of thought which was produced in the last century 20's to seek China's modernization through heritage and revival of Confucianism and integration of Western academic. Both adhered to the spirit of Chinese culture, but also actively absorbed advanced Western science to realize national modernization management was a fundamental ideas of Modern Neo-Confucian.Modern Neo-Confucianism made this claim, based on a fundamental basis of the history of philosophy. Through the history of close observation, they found that there was a fundamental law of historical development.That was the Saint and Practice of the Confucian school, which the history of the Chinese nation was based on.To solve the crisis of the Chinese nation in modern times relied on it.Hsu Foo-kwan explained the law of historical development through the relationship of eternity and change of history. The eternity of history was in governing the change, which was just a manifestation of the eternity. Chinese people could pull through with the eternity to cope with the great changes in modern times in China.Mou Chung-san thought about the historical development with the spirit of history and confucian knowledge of mind. Through the historical development of Chinese and Western,. Mou Chung-san found different spiritual life between Chinese and Western cultures. Chinese history shows that a "comprehensive rational spirit" and "comprehensive emotional spirit", while Western history is presented as a "decomposition of the rational spirit". Mou Chung-san thought science and democracy in China did not appear for lack of "decomposition of the rational spirit".The future of Chinese culture lied in integration of China's comprehensive rational spirit and the spirit of the West of decomposition to form a more rational Spirit. This comprehensive rational spirit existed in the history of ancient China. Politics in ancient China had a fundamental of moral and loving. Chinese grasp the life in the first place, rather than external nature, which was the different place with the Western culture. Political system in ancient China had the right to democratic governance, did not produce a democratic regime. Therefore, China had no political freedom of the subject. However, China had another subject of moral freedom and artistic freedom. The period of warring state period and qin dynasty is the times of gradual decomposition of comprehensive rational spirit.Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius completely inherited the spirit of the comprehensive rational. Renal calculi, GuanZhong embodied this spirit in the form of hegemony. Mencius and Xun Zi reflected the comprehensive and rational spirit with the principal moral and intellectual subjects. In the Qin Dynasty, YingZheng against all ethics and moral values. To the Western Han dynasty, Liu Bang, Zhang Liang and other talented people showed the spirit of comprehensive sensibility. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Guangwu expressed as a rational spirit of the inherent performance. Tang Chun-I philosophically though about history from the spiritual and cultural value of Chinese. Chinese culture and Western culture from the origin and formation of the different external factors, brought about different characteristics in the spirit of Chinese and Western cultures. Attention to the type of culture, Western culture is a culture of Fang Yi Zhi spirit. Attention to cultural traditions of culture, Chinese culture is a culture of Yuan Er Shen spirit. Tang Chun-I believed Confucius in the Chinese traditional culture of the development process played a very important role. The fundamental spirit of Chinese culture is a conscious realization of the spirit of seeking. The fundamental spirit of Western culture is a conscious expression of the spirit of seeking. Chinese culture and Western culture should learn from each other and progress together.Common characteristics can be found through the interpretation of the history of philosophy of Hsu Foo-kwan, Mou Chung-san and Tang Chun-I. An essential feature of their philosophy of history was emphasis on cultural values in the historical development, and deeping into the root causes to think about the history of development and changes. The Mind of Confucian learning, as a theoretical foundation to understand and explain the history was of another essential characteristics of modern Neo-Confucianism. The third common feature of Modern Neo-Confucian philosophy of history was that the Confucian " inner sage, outer king " law was the fundamental norms of historical development. Some people certaintied modern Neo-Confucian philosophy of history, and some people questioned the modern Neo-Confucian philosophy of history. The former believed that modern Neo-Confucian philosophy of history could solve all the problems in China's future development. The latter thought that this was a kind of idealism to interpret the historical development. The thought of ethics reducing of Mou Chung-san, and the thought of Ethics forgetting itself for the time being of Tang Chun-I could not produce science and democracy from moral reason. In fact, this ideas could be understood woth the way of thinking of "one divides into three", which was an old ancient Chinese way of thinking found by Mr. Pang Pu. The way of thinking of "one divides into three" could be very good to help understand the history of philosophy of Modern Neo-Confucianism.