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A Study On Lo Kuang ’s Theory Of Confucian Philosophy Of Life

Posted on:2017-03-16Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:L L DingFull Text:PDF
GTID:1225330503480765Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Lo Kuang forms the characters of the Confucian life philosophy by reconstructing Confucianism and absorbing the creation thought in western scholasticism. Centering on “life”, capturing the essence of western philosophy and eastern philosophy widely, Lo Kuang opens a broad perspective of Confucian life. The life system which Lo Kuang built has been a completely new model.His life system transcends the limitation of culture and becomes a universal knowledge of life. It helps people to understand life, experience life, transcend life in the metaphysical level.The Confucian life philosophy Lo Kuang has built reconciles the western cognitions of life and the eastern cognitions of life, provides us with a transcultural perspective, helps us understand the possibility and orientation of life objectively, knows the source and destination of life, identifies the operation condition of life. As a result, human can rely their own life, and the life will unfold its inherent richness.This is the character of human life, and it shows the full view of Lo Kuang’s Confucian life thought.Lo Kuang analysis the ontological questions of life. Justifying through the western and eastern approach, Lo Kuang think that it is reasonable for Confucian to explain life from the perspective of “move” and it fits with the whole recognition of life that current people have. Lo Kuang reaches a new conclusion that “exsist” of life. Lo Kuang thinks that the ontology of Confucian life is “being”or “come into being”,and its embodiment is life. It is a dynamic process from “can ”to “being”.the “being ”of life is the ontology,it is a inherent power and it presents itself through the change of relationship between “nature”and”be living”.the exsisting of life is the basic point of the whole life.The universe emerges into a big life,life is being,being is life,life and being is totally the same.Lo Kuang strips the cosmism from confucionism, it makes us understand the process and form of life. Lo Kuang reconstructs confucionism by combing with scholasticism. Lo Kuang thinks that the universe has this origin is the resut that the creative uses the creation.The creative is not the god in the sense of religion.but it is a being that transcend the universe.Only in this way can the creative use its power to create the universe.It has some similarities with the “nature” in Confucianism. The creative use the creative power to link the life,it is the link in the ontological sense.The change of the universe is maintained by the creative power. In this sense,the creative power is universe, it not only combines the forms with materials of the things but also make it exsist.The process of universe embodies that the process of change.The process of universe obeys by the rule of change and the end of change is “generating”,to create the universe.Basing on the study of the universe, Lo Kuang analysis the individuals and form the single origin theory which is an creation to Confucian life philosophy. The presentation of single life is the combine of “generation”and ”being”,”generation ”is the regulation of the single life;”being ”is the essential character of single life. The process of singe life embodies that “move”, ”act”, ”change”. ”move” starts with the single life and ends up with the single life, ”act” is the act of life and it orients to itself, ”change” refers to the unusual act of life or the change of interrelationship results into the born of things.Luoguang analysis the Print quality Yuan theory,contrasts the Liqi Theory and concludes that materials and forms,yuanzhi and yuanxing is consistent;the combination of materials and forms form the “nature”,then “nature” and “being” forms the singles.The singles are formed by the creative,but it keeps its real existence;and the substance is the thing rather than the other thing, it resolves the elaboration of the singles on the question of” nature and destiny ” and analysis the singles in Confucian.Basing on the ontology /cosmiology and the reasons of life, Lo Kuang turns to the meaning of life itself. The life of humans is the core of the universe and it is the elaboration of life character. Lo Kuang analysis the meaning of life, think that it is powered by the subject and formed in the subject,and it is an action that shows Confucian is centered on life, highlights the “sheng”, elaborates the life through”hua””tong””li”,abstract the forms of Confucian life,the condition of life is whole,it arouses people to reflect the life itself.Human is the center of the universe,it has become the essence of the ontology,and the inherent reason of human;The research of human nature in Confucian has built a cultural tradition of ethical ontology,it sets up an end for human beings and ideal character;”xin”shows human nature and controls human feelings,and it is the controller of human and is not disturbed by outers.Basing on the importance of “xin”,The Confucian attaches great importance to the maintance of “xin”,improve the moral cultivation. Lo Kuang combines the “ren”/”li””de”and life,and shows the combination of universal life and the moral nature,shows the new orientation of the core values of the Confucian.Lo Kuang analysis the epistemology of Confucian,and explain the epistemology of the subject,and abstract the epistemology of Confucian.The understanding activity is the question of the subject and the object.it present the life by being the subject.The process of cognitation shows that human is the combination of mind and material.Human has three kinds of existence forms:ontology /exsisence /the fure.In the cognitation activity,the object will breakthrough the limitation of the subject and exchange the materials and powers with the subject.Human know the universe through their sense,and steps into the reasonable understanding of the nature and laws of the universe.The self-awareness of human is the results of transcending the nature,and it can divided into three categories:the directive knowledge,the reflective knowledge and the eternal knowledge.During the process of cognitationthere are some reflections on the value and meaning which can not be answered with existing experience.So we have to return to the self,transcend the limitation of time and space,and reach the fulfill condition of cognitation,and realize the improvement of cognitationLo Kuang the ultimate meaning of life lies in transcending the life.Life should be a condition of fulfillment and it should provide the humans with an approach to liberate from the reality to mind.Luoguang uses the Confucian life as a foundation, then thinks the law of nature and life. Lo Kuang concludes that the way to transcend the cultivation/nature/destiny is sincerity and self-restraint,and the goal of transcending is the condition of saint. Lo Kuang absorbs the logical system of scholasticism.”Transcending existence” has already transcend the range of rationality,and it hardly can be expressed in language,and we must rely on the spiritualism that the god brings to integrate the spiritual life of humans.Soul is the source of human life,and it is created by the creative power,and soul is the subject of life.By researching the transcendence of soul,we find a routine to transcend reality:pure and bright,bright and god,god and tong,and reach the ultimate goal of transcending life. Lo Kuang bridges the Confucian and scholasticism,and combines them together.” Ren” exists in the universe,life transcends in ren ai,and the key to finish the transcendence is “emptying the self-conciousness”,don’t bring the feeling and rationality and desire into play arbitrarily,realize the combination of the humans and the creatives;the goal of transcending life is to the fulfillment of love.Basing on the combination of human and the creatives, humans fulfill the combination with materials,humans.
Keywords/Search Tags:the creative power, creativity, the variation of life, transcendence
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