On The Life Ethics Of Xin Shi Xun (New Treatise On The Way Of Life)

Feng You-lan carries through reasonable analysis and formal affirmation to the traditional morals, and opens out, eliminates the draffy and laggard thinks of the traditional morals to interpret its abstract, eternal value, moreover, combines concrete living scenes to endow with the new contents and forms to the traditional morals, affirms the person's rational knowledge to the significance which judges morals behavior by uniting rational thinking with logical analysis's method in the Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life).The purpose which Feng You-lan wrote Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life) was for constructing a set of morals rule (that is living method) which was pre-requisite in the war , expressing himself to the comprehension of social life and the pursuit of life significance. Today, we research Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life)'s ethical thinking from the life ethical point of view, which has the practical significance and the theoretical significance, and it is suitable for the personal life ethics of modern common customs society.This thesis is divided into three parts.The first part mainly elaborates Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life) how to be "new" , in that it differs from the ancients speaking, also differs from the modern speaking. It has its "new" argumentation, which mainly incarnates in "carrying-on narration" instead of "repeating narration", "the comprehensive doctrine" instead of "the partial extremity" , "the way of ordinary mortal" instead of "the doctrine of sage" .The second part mainly illustrates that Feng You-Lan lays equal stress on the "moral" and "immoral" 's "the bifocus" 's the treatise method in this book to emerge a kind of the rational life ethics for people by the some concrete contents of Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life).The third part excavates the modern value of the life ethics of Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life). On the one hand, the life ethics of Xin Shi Xun succeeds and expands Chinese the path of moderation eclecticism, diligence and frugality, honesty and respect, harmony and diversity etc traditional virtue, and the traditional Confucian ethics focuses on the inner dharma. on the contrary, it is highlighted "doing" . On the other hand, the life ethics of Xin Shi Xun(New Treatise on the Way of Life) has apocalypse in the ethical subject construction, which incarnates in the new ethics standpoint that it liberates framework of Neo-Confucianism's "must be one of these two ", thereby, reduces morals appraisement excessive intervention in the life of people, which incarnates in the ethics viewpoint's trait namely the reasonableness turn , the civilian turn, the living turn, which incarnates in its modern ethics significance that it provides a value dependence for people being place in life. It abstracts people's consensus from the tradition ethical thinking, gives to set from the spiritual and mental contradictory for present-day human, puts forward to the down-to-earth feasible, exercisable practice methods for Person and person, and society, and nature how should harmoniously live.