The Study Of Mou ZongSan's Moral Metaphysics

Mou Zongsan comprehends the wisdom of Confucianism under the enlightenment of Mr. Xiong Shili. Mou Zongsan, in his academic career over half century, devotes himself to exploring the gist of traditional culture and absorbing the quintessence of western culture especially Kant's philosophy. Basing on achieving mastery through a comprehensive study of the subject, he melts the Chinese and western culture to oneness, the constructs his strict and huge system of "Moral metaphysics." The text is about his system.In preface, the article simply narrates the resources of his theory and the connotation of moral metaphysics, and the difference between them. The article is divided into three chapters. The first chapter relates the connotation of "Intellectual intuition" which is the core category of his system, and the proof of theory and practice about it. Then the writer studies the limit of his proof and compares his theory with Heidegger and Scheler's. Chapter two explicates his system of "Moral metaphysics" which embraces two shades ontology that is holding and unholding ontology. Both of them can transform each other. Chapter three expounds the perfect religion and the supreme good.Mou Zongsan tries to achieve Kant's supreme good with Chinese perfect religion, and he thinks that virtue and happiness are tied in saint with strange way. Concluding remarks inspects his whole system and points out that intuitive can't being regarded as essence, and it can appear but can't negate itself. It is invalid to construct this system judging from this. But we can see it has great importance to promote intellectual intuition for philosophy, on the one hand, we can use it as "moral intuition" and on the other hand we can name it as moral intuition or insight of value.