Research On Person Ontology

In a western viewpoint, the largest obstacle in the research of person ontology isthe thinking mode of substance, according to which, there is no place for Person, butonly for individuals. In my idea, it therefore makes the research on phenomena ofPerson from an ontological viewpoint impossible. Fortunately, the problem had beensolved in the frame of Theory of Existenz. The concept of Dasein entails that aperson as a special being who can quest for his own being and put being and himselfin the same entity. The Dasein question that who am I let us know of the conceptionof Existenz and try to understand the relationship between person and noumenon.My research on Person Ontology is to make an ontological answer to person’sontological nature.In a Chinese viewpoint, the relationship between person and noumenon istotally different with that of western tradition, but it is very close to that of theTheory of Existenz. There is not substance-oriented but relation-oriented thought in the I Ching, in which change is fundamental. However, Taiji (The Super Ultimate) asthe foundation is infinite, which is also called Wuji(The Nihility). A Taoist answer tothe relationship between person and noumenon is that the sage is who can be in anentity with the Tao, while the ordinary person can not. In the doctrine of HuayanZong, noumenon is regarded as Li (the Noumenon), while a person as Shi(thePhenomena). But there are no obstacles between noumenon and phenomena, andthey are in the same entity. In a Zenist idea, mind is the existence and the existence ismind, they are the same. The relationship between person and noumenon is also thatof two sides in the same coin. However, the Confucians take an attitude ofworldliness. They believe that the sage take the mind of the people as his own andtherefore the latter are noble and fundamental. It is a human-oriented idea. TheConfucian scholars in the Song and Ming dynasties even raised the idea that aperson’s mind is the universe and there is nothing outside his/her mind. Gong Zizhen,a scholar in Qing Dynasty proposed that I am the origin and that mind and body arein the same entity, they are similar.The noumenon in the Existenz doctrine is Nihility, which is totally changedcomparing the tradition of metaphysical ontology in which Being is cherished. Thismeans the viewpoint of substance as noumenon is replaced by that of relation as noumenon, which further leads the traditional paradigm of substance andcompetition to be changed into person ontology which is expressed with a paradigmof relationship and cooperation. This is why the theory of person is posed to solvethe problem of relationship between Person and Noumenon.In this sense, Person is a unit of mind and body which entails matter and spirit,and independent existence and coexistence. According to the research on PersonOntology, it is possible for separating I and selfishness. The finding of the real manis in essence that the significance of person’s context is being found. The evil andvice in the behaviors is from the idea on that, which is actually mirage. The truth inthe facts is all from original mind. The space between the Signifiant and theSignified is the arbitrary relevance between the Signifiant that Ferdinand deSaussure found in the symbols of language and the Signified in the concernedconcepts. The difference between Idea and Reality can be removed and then theycame into one unit. In my opinion, reason is not noumenon, because reason relateswith existence while noumenon with nihility.The most important achievement in Person Ontology is that it points out thatthere are four stages for the way of unify Person and Noumenon, which are the fourstates for being aware of personal noumenon. The logical starting point of this thinking is Person who achieved the unity of Idea and Reality. That is I as a Person.It is superior to the concept of Dasein, because the latter is not a Reality.The research on Person Ontology is based on person identity. The person showsits distance with noumenon in every stage for being aware of the Nature of PersonalNoumenon.In the first stage, the nature of personal noumenon is not being recognized. Thecharacter in this stage is that there is only the wheel but I am not exist at all. The realnature of I is shaded and therefore, there is no personal wisdom, and there are toomuch thoughts in his/her mind. I believe that in this stage person identity will be low.In the second stage, there is to be wisdom on the True Me, but it is not too much,because the person still can not cast off the bondage of selfishness. In my idea, thekey to change the cognition into wisdom is to achieve the unity of Idea and Reality.In the third stage, the complete person wisdom is achieved and selfishness iseliminated. However, it is hardly to avoid to see me as the center of all. This isembodied in a way that the person can not understand the others completely.The fourth stage is the state of a complete wise energy and the Person whoentered into this state can understand his/her nomenon completly. Its main characteris without selfishness and the unity of I and Others. It is achieved in the integration of different contexts. The fact that reason is not the nature of noumenon has beenrealized by him/her now. It is a transcendence of western epistemology and itstraditional paradigm of Ideas or Symbols.In this dissertation, I propose an ontological interpretation on phenomena ofpersons. In my viewpoint, there is a departure of person from individual inExistentialism, but there is no concern on the inner relating mechanism betweenDasein and being. My aim is to explore the inner necessity between person andnoumenon. Martin Heidegger got rid of the critique on his human-centered idea inhis later life and set up a theory in which heaven, nature, man and god are in a unit.My idea is to establish the four states for being aware of Person Ontology. I think itis more concrete than Heidegger’s idea, and it is more suitable for enlightening themodern human beings.Heidegger announced the Existentz meaning of Dasein with the doctrine of theTheory of Existenz that entities and being is different, and he stopped onhermenuitics, which is still in the fame of epistemology. I try to take the Person whounites Idea and Reality as noumenon in Person Ontology. This is not merely basedon the noumenon of language. Then it is possible to achieve the real significance ofHusserl’s recurring to the routine life world and escape from the dilemma of Ideas and Symbols.An Existenz viewpoint in philosophy of science showed us the truth that notonly the modern human being and the modern technology of science all are a wayof life. But he denied himself after prescribing the ways of solving the problems.That is why Heidegger in his late years abandoned the hope to modern human beingsand turned to pray for God’s kindness. On the contrary, Person Ontology has fullconfidence and hope to construct the community of scientific practice of philosophy.I think, Person Ontology is to inherit and develop the Theory of Existenz further.Another aim in this disssertation is to unite Chinese ancient philosophy and theTheory of Existenz which might give us a point for the fusion of Chinese andwestern thoughts in the coming future.