Research On The Academic Thought Of Zhao Jibing

Zhao Jibin(1905-1982),whose pen names are Xiang Linbing and Ji Xuanbing,is an early Marxist theoretical researcher of the Communist Party,and a modern Marxist philosopher and historian in China.Zhao Jibin’s identities as a revolutionary,a scholar and a university president made his academic temperament unique and typical among early Marxist scholars.He made great efforts to apply the basic principles of Marxism to the study of the history of Chinese philosophy and the history of Chinese thought.He made arduous explorations on the Sinicization of Marxist learning,and produced the Outline of Chinese Philosophy History,Philosophical Essentials,Chinese Philosophical Thought,New Exploration of the Analects of Confucius,General History of Chinese thought(co-authored with Hou Wailu,etc.),and the collection of essays,Kunzhilu.There are also the Collection of Zhao Jibin’s Works in three volums.This paper takes Zhao Jibin’s academic research and academic thoughts as the main line,follows the principles of combining macro with micro,unifying history and logic,and adopting the methods of historical literature research,special topic research,comparative research and interdisciplinary comprehensive research.It is a systematic study of Zhao Jibin’s academic thoughts from four aspects respectively,which are the formation and development of his academic thought,philosophical thought,historical thought,cultural and educational thought.The study of Chinese philosophy and the history of Chinese philosophy,which is devoted to materialism and dialectics,is the scientific philosophical research that reflects the objective truth pursued by Zhao Jibin,that is,the study of Marxist philosophy history in his eyes.Starting from the historical materialism and dialectics of Marxism,Zhao Jibin has always regarded the struggle rules and dialectics rules of materialism and idealism in the development of philosophy as the basic guiding principle for his research on the history of Chinese philosophy and Chinese ideological history,and has become an important feature of Zhao Jibin’s research on the history of Chinese philosophy and Chinese thought.Zhao Jibin is dedicated to establishing the history of Chinese materialism through the discovery of dialectics and the development rules of materialism elements in Chinese philosophy.The Outline of the History of Chinese Philosophy,published in 1939,is systemic,clear in research perspective and has obvious clue of Marxist materialist dialectics.It establishes an example of using Marxist historical materialism to study and write the history of Chinese philosophy.As an important academic work on the study of the Analects of Marxism,New Exploration of the Analects of Confucius,once recommended by Chairman Mao Zedong,is the most important and painstaking work of Zhao Jibin’s life.On the basis of text statistics and exegesis,this work uses the Marxist class analysis method to argue that "human"and "people" are the two opposing classes at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period,it takes the division of "gentlemen" and "villains" within"human",the contradiction and struggle of economic basis and ideological line as the social nature in ancient times of the Spring and Autumn Period.The analysis and Discussion on the class basis,philosophical thought system and historical status of the early Confucianists is refreshing.In the philosophical debate on "one divides into two" and "two into one"in 1960s,Zhao Jibin wrote a series of seven articles on "interpretation of one and two" since 1964.Through the interpretation of the "one" and "two" philosophical thoughts of the pre-Qin philosophers,he explored the struggle and development law between the dialectics and metaphysics in the pre-Qin period,and systematically explained his philosophical thoughts on "one" and "two" point of view.As one of the main co-authors of Hou Wailu’s five-volume General History of Chinese Thought,Zhao Jibin insisted on taking Marxist theory as the guidance,highlighted the struggle between materialism and idealism and class analysis,discovered Wang Chong,fan Zhen,Lv Cai and many other "heretical" thinkers who were ignored in the past,and highlighted their materialism in the struggle against orthodox ideology.The fighting nature of Marxism has made a pioneering contribution to the study of the history of Chinese thought of Marxism.With the method of historical analysis,Zhao Jibin systematically combed and creatively studied the origin,development and characteristics of the logic thought of pre-Qin Mingbian.(1)By studying the emerge and development of the thought of name debate and analogy in the pre-Qin period,this paper makes a more accurate explanation of the theoretical characteristics and causes of the pre-Qin logic,outlines the development of the pre-Qin logic,and preliminarily reveals the reasons for the gradual decline of ancient Chinese logic after the Qin Dynasty.(2)This paper studies the relationship between the logical thoughts of "Lei" and "Gu" and the political and philosophical thoughts of thinkers,so as to build a bridge between ancient Chinese logic and ancient Chinese philosophy and politics.Starting from the ancient Chinese ideological system,this paper studies ancient Chinese logic.By means of historical analysis and comparison,it discovers that different philosophical and political views may lead to different concepts of "category" and "reason",which may lead to different logic theories.This research perspective and direction has a profound impact on the further development of Chinese logic history.As a scholar who has been working in the field of culture and education of the Communist Party of China for a long time,Zhao Jibin put forward the theory of "folk form" as the "central source" of creating Chinese literature and art of Anti-Japanese War based on the idea of "put new wine into old bottles " in the 1930s and 1940s,which promoted the discussion on the national form of literature and art.In addition,Zhao Jibin paid attention to the propaganda and political functions of education,paid attention to the mutual promotion of teaching and scientific research of Chinese philosophy history,and attached importance to the cultivation of young teachers and professional teachers’ further study,which have a positive and far-reaching impact on the construction and development of Chinese philosophy history.