| Concerning life and moral principles is the basic feature of Chinese philosophy. The modern new Confucian pioneer figure—Liang Shuming who is faced with the total westernization heckled by the westernization school is determined to take the task of reviving Confuciusm with the keen sense of social responsibility, moral mission, and succession of conventional Confucian tenet of being sacred home and kings abroad. With his whole life, he is lingering between Buddhism and Confuciusm, and assisting the western world to fuse into China, expecting to achieve the realization of transferring the Confucian theory into a modern type. Therefore, he established the modern new Confucian theory with the direction of returning to the nature and absorbing the new developments.The core feature of Liang Shuming's life moral thought system lies in that he makes reference to the modern western splendid theoretical resources, besides which he himself has a deep life realization, so that he makes a total new explanation and development towards the conventional Confucian life philosophy. He contains life moral thought in his cultural theory from three directions. By comparing and studying the three kinds of cultures—China, the western world and India, he aims to foreground the superiority of Chinese moral culture and to uplift the value of Confucian life justice and ration. He takes intuition as the internal evidence of man's moral life, and he describes the spiritual features of Confucian life morals incisively and vividly, which attach more importance to emotion and friendship, respecting affection without self, preferring Confucius happy appearance and pursuing self-introspection and self-reliance.. Moreover, he points out that under the present circumstances of socialist market economy, re-examine the Liang Shuming's life moral thought is of significant and deep importance to face up to the conventional culture and to carry forward humanistic value. |
