Study Of The Amalgamation Of Wang Chong's Thought

Wang Chong was one of the prominent thinkers in the Dynasty of Dong-Han. By means of the advantage capital culture and Imperial College and Relying on his diligence and gift, Wang Chong read extensively compiling of the various schools of thought and their exponents and became one of the famous scholar, and took shape to his studying-idea of absorbing hundred theories.Distinctive natural view of Wang Chong was the theoretic base that he sucked up and mixed together various schools of thought. Prominence feature of his natural view was properties of material and natural of the world, that was usually named the materialism and the naturalism. The view of materialism and the naturalism of Wang Chong was the thought-core of his ideas, and was the basic direction rule that Wang Chong accepted or rejected the form idea fruits. It was under the guidance of his materialism and the naturalism that he absorbed, fused, sublimed and innovated all of the idea fruits to Confucian, Taoists, Legalists, Monist and so on.Wang Chong expounded the community appearance in the way of naturalism, and believed in that-"Property is natural, good or evil possess its character", "Time and fate are the nature should be". Through imbibing theory of human nature of the Confucian, the philosophy of realistic and intricate of Wang Chong was formed. Moreover, Wang Chong inherited materialism ideas from the Confucian thoughts, and repudiated the tendency of the theology according to the materialism concept, thus improved the natural view of himself.From view of naturalism, Wang Chong passed on the Taoist natural view and cited a great quantity of examples to substantiate nature teachings and made the theory of "Natural Quality of Heaven Rule" get further certification and development. Based on inheriting the Gas Dissertation of the Taoist and mixing together the Gas Theories of Zhu Jia form Pre-Qin Dynasty and the natural scientific fruit at that time, Wang Chong built the more integrated Vigor Theory of his. In addition, the view of life and death of Wang Chong also took on the color of the natural dialectical of Taoist school.Guiding by the materialism and followed the basic viewpoint that Legalists analyze the social problems, Wang Chong sought and pursued the root from the material life condition, and mixed the "Rule by Law" of Legalists and the "Rule by Virtue" of Confucian, proposed the thesis to manage country affairs by moral and strength. He regarded the community history development as a natural objective process, inherited and developed the history evolution view of the Legalists. Meanwhile, he still held the materialism epistemology of Han Feizi.The Mohist was the largest school that set together with the Confucian school in the pre-Qin day. To Han era, along with establishing of the Confucianism into governor position, the Mohist school gradually tended to the decline. But Wang Chong, a scholar of well-read, still concerned to the Mohism and assimilated its Epistemology and Thin Bury View. Moreover, Wang Chong still picked materialism component in the simplicity Yin-and-Yang Five Elements Theory.