Moral Thought Of Personality Tang Junyi

This paper would try to present Tang’s thoughts on moral personality in the comparable perspective of intersection between Chinese and western, especially in the reflection of modern German rationalist philosophy, to observe and study Tang’s works on inheriting, developing and modernizing the traditional ideas of Confucian ethics.Around "Why ought to be a moral person?" and "how to be a moral person?", Tang Chun-i explored the basis of human nature from the Emotion, and constructed a new kind of cognitive style named "Gan-Tong" which embodying the identification between Subject and Object to explore the possible path of realizing the moral personality. Specifically, the first is, through establishing senses between body and mind in oneself, to set moral-self up by reflecting and experiencing life to reaffirm subjectivity; The second is, through establishing senses between the self and the others, to expand self-spiritual-horizon by empathizing with others and caring for others timely and locally; The last is to achieve the highest personality horizon by undertaking bravely responsibilities from family, social and nation, through establishing senses between heaven and man. Meanwhile, Due to the coincidence between remodeling mind order and constructing social order, and the indivisible between modeling moral personality and building the social ethics, Tang Chun-i planned a harmonious culture word, and elaborated his principles of justice embodying the spirit of humane authority.The process of "Gan-tong" is a process of appearance of conscience, and is also a process of identification of Acting and Knowing, presenting the logical route of Tang’s moral theories. Tang Chun-i stressed the practical nature of the moral. He emphasized that people need to practice in daily life and social ethic life to possess the moral personality, and achieving moral personality is a practical process of changing and creating the life word. The moral personality through "Gan-tong" is the citizen’s personality permeating with the modern public spirit. Basing on the center of moral personality, Tang’s ideological system of ethics provided a respectable, though not perfect path for reference for realizing modernization of traditional moral culture.