Research On Yan Yuan's Idea Of Utilitarianism

The so-called utilitarianism is the ideological and theory with the standard of utilitarian or efficiency. For a country or specific members, utilitarian values are inherent in nature. YanYuan classed "benefit is righteousness." in the moral supremacy environment This utilitarian values hold an extremely important position in the Chinese traditional utilitarian .Quoting to YanYuan's utilitarianism and made a more systematic study from a philosophical perspective.YanYuan's utilitarianism idea is conclusion about a part of our predecessors' thought. He differed from Mozi's "benefit" which established altruism. Yanyuan trusted there was egoism in the world. And he differed from kongzi's "morality and justice" too, while not to simple for him positioning as the vulgar utilitarianism in the West. YanYuan was in the jurisprudence as official school age, "Neisheng" learning flourish, scholars talk about heart-to-nature, and ignore " advantages ". However, the feudal system has already begun to drop towards recession, contradictions and conflicts exist between the value system in which moral is superior and the existing social system. YanYuan tried to unify "Neisheng" and "Wai Wang" by his deep sense of historical mission. He criticized by the absorption of the predecessors, thus creating his own personal ideology.The text expounds YanYuan 's ideas of utility from three aspects. The first part is his attitude on justice and benefit, the second one is the function of education theory, and the last one is a comprehensive account of utilitarianism.