Research On Shao Yong's Thought In The Context Of Ecological Philosophy

Since the Chinese philosophy discipline established,the meta theoretical system of Chinese philosophy research has undergone several major changes with the development of social condition.Since the 1960s and 1970s,due to the destruction of the ecological environment and the highlight of the ecological crisis,the research of ecological philosophy has gradually risen from the west,and has become the forefront of philosophical research.Since the 1980s,under the influence of the international academic community,scholars who study Chinese philosophy has also begun to pay attention to the domestic environment problems.They have carried out in-depth excavation and interpretation of the ecological philosophy thought in ancient Chinese philosophy and achieved many research results.The study of ancient Chinese ecological philosophy has also become the frontier issue in the field of current Chinese philosophy.However,there are still few doctoral theses on the interpretation of ancient Chinese Ecological Philosophy in the context of ecological philosophy,especially the case studies on the important figures in the history of philosophy.In the context of ecological philosophy,the study of this paper takes the meta theoretical system of Confucian ecological philosophy as reference and guidance,and makes an in-depth interpretation of Shao Yong’s thoughts,with a view to enlightening the construction of Chinese philosophical discourse system,the dialogue of global civilization and the further improvement of China’s theoretical system of ecological philosophy.The content of this paper mainly includes the following five parts:The introduction mainly introduces the background of ecological philosophy,sorts out and summarizes the current situation of ecological philosophy research at home and abroad,analyzes the connotation of ecological philosophy,summarizes the main situation of Shao Yong’s thought research,and explains the research methods,writing difficulties and solutions of this paper,as well as the innovation of this paper.The first chapter introduces Shao Yong’s life experience,makes an in-depth research on the occurrence and development of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy,and lays a solid foundation for the interpretation of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy.Shao Yong’s ideological course mainly includes three aspects:taking part in the imperial examination,learning from Li Zhicai and ideological creation.Shao Yong took part in the imperial examinations several times during his lifetime,and his failure in the imperial examinations in 1046 AD led him to bid farewell to the imperial examinations.Li Zhicai awarded Shao Yong the knowledge of the Spring and Autumn Annals and Zhouyi,including astronomy,calendar and mathematics at that time,which constituted the main knowledge background of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy,and laid the ideological foundation for the construction of Shao Yong’s Prenatal ontology and Huangjijingshi theory.Shao Yong’s " Blow soil Poems”recorded his life and friends from many aspects,gave full play to his ecological philosophy,and the writing style embodied Shao Yong’s ideal of humanistic education,which also had a profound influence on the poetics of later generations.The second chapter analyzes the characteristics and structure of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy from a macro point of view,and fully expounds the uniqueness and ontological structure of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy.The characteristics of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy can be summarized as the Neo-Confucianism that transcends the figure-ology,the mathematics that unifies the mind philosophy,and the human philosophy that contains the natural philosophy.The Neo-Confucianism which transcends the figure-ology focus on explaining that Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy is not the study of the genethlialogy,but the study of the theory of human nature.The mathematics that unifies the mind philosophy is intend to show that Shao Yong’s mathematical model of the ecosystem contains the content of the mind philosophy,and the mind philosophy also constitutes the important content of his mathematical model.Although Shao Yong made a thorough exploration of the ecological law of the movement and transformation of nature and earth,his thoughts ultimately took social development as the fundamental foothold,and his system of nature and man was an organic and unified ecosystem.The ontology structure of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy takes Prenatal,Tai Chi and Spirit as ontology.Shao Yong’s Prenatal emphasis refers to the human’s mind with ontology meaning,also refers to the ontology of the universe,the origin of all things.The evolution of Tai Chi is both ontological and generative.The movement and transformation of the universe and the development of human history are the results of Tai Chi.In the ecosystem composed by nature and human,the movement and transformation of spirit is both ontology and concrete.The three concepts that Prenatal,Tai Chi and Spirit are not only different but also intrinsically related.The Prenatal focuses on explaining the human mind’s feeling function for the universe,Tai Chi focuses on explaining the movement and transformation of the objective world,and the Spirit focuses on describing the movement and transformation of Tai Chi and the dynamics of human’s mind.In a word,the connotations of Prenatal,Tai Chi and Spirit have their respective emphases.On the other hand,the three are actually one,which cannot be completely separated.They are all descriptions of the organic unified ecosystem of nature and human.The third chapter explains the main categories and application fields of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy system,explains the application of the categories such as Yin Yang hardness and softness,the utility of body and function,and Qi,focuses on analysis the application of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy in human history.Yin and Yang are the basic categories of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy.Shao Yong gave full play to the connotation of "dividing the Yin and Yang,overlapping the softness and hardness" in Shuogua,and formed a complete and magnificent natural ecosystem with interlaced space and time.Shao Yong use the utility of body and function in a dialectically way,the utility of body and function has both the physical concrete connotation and the metaphysical ontological significance.Shao Yong believed that Qi is the basic substance of all things in nature and earth,and determines the basic nature of all things.Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy system is mainly used to explain the structure of all things and the historical process of human beings.Shao Yong believed that the Yin and Yang of nature determine the evil and the good of human virtue,the natural structure of nature can be corresponding to the structure of human body,and that the natural order affects the changing trend of the whole human history.At the same time,the nature also have a sense to the human behaviors,thus showing the change of good or ill and regret or reluctance,the nature and people are existing and developing in a dynamic mutual relationship.The fourth chapter combs the cultivation kung fu and realm in Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy,in-depth elaborates Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy of cultivation methods,analyzes the specific connotation of his cultivation realm.The kung fu in Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy regard learning to cultivate one’s mind as the basement,taking experience the Tao in silence as the way,and obeying nature law as the goal.Shao Yong believed that learning can make people insight into the nature,which is an important part of the cultivation of the mind.Experiencing the Tao in silence is an important way to view things in Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy,and it is an intuitive way to the objective things and even the innate principles.It is not only a theory of cultivation,but also an epistemology.Obeying nature law is by cultivating to comply with the law of nature,not miscellaneous private will,achieve the state of nature,which contains Shao Yong’s understanding on the mandate of nature.The realm of Shao Yong’s ecological philosophy includes three levels:understand the nature and man clearly,in and out of the universe,and be united with nature.Understand the nature and man clearly is to perceive the nature and human beings in one’s spiritual domain.In and out of the universe is to awake one’s own existence and the nature transcendentally,in order to bring the subtle regularities of the nature and earth into his spiritual cultivation.The unity of nature and man is a transcendental physical and mental experience that the sage dispels the subjectivity of the ego,thus realizing a cultural realm that integrates with the country,the nature,the earth,the ancient and the modern.Shao Yong left us an important understanding and a cultivation method of observing objects,and he is an ideological master with both rational understanding and perceptual feelings.He has made outstanding contributions to the development of Yi-ology and poetics,and his thoughts are still worthy for us to explore.