The Study On Feng Youlan's Philosophy Of Life

Feng Youlan is a renown Philosophical historian, philosopher, and one of the representative figures of New Confucianism in the 20th century of China. He proposed four transcendent concepts —Li , Qi, DaoTi, DaQuan, by introducing the Western methodology of logical analyses to the Chinese traditional philosophy, based on which he constructed a system of life philosophy using New Ape-man as a core. The nature of man and life is intuit; man's different intuits of the universe and life lead to four different life states, and the transcendent state is the best one that an ideal life could reach, which is also that of a sage. The transcendent way to be a sage is "To be wise but through a mediocre way". He holds that philosophy is systematic reflections on life, which can better man's spiritual state and eventually leads to the destination of being a sage, thus puts man into the ultimate concern that is superior to religion. Feng Youlan's life philosophy originated from the methodology of logical analyses. He tried analyzing the categories of traditional philosophy by using modern scientific methods, and on the basis of which, he tried to construct a clearly systematic life philosophy with modern significance, and drew a picture of a sage like common people bearing a philosophical ambition of finding "a place to settle down and get on with work"for his countrymen. His belief about life state, based on the Chinese traditional philosophy in which moral metaphysics plays a key role and combining the cultures of China and the Western, was a brave beneficial attempt aiming at the modernization and globalization of the Chinese philosophy.