A Study On Xunzi's Outlook For Honor And Dishonor

Xunzi's outlook for honor and dishonor is the most representative and founded influential thought, it is not only carry forward the thought of outlook for honor and dishonor of the Confucianists, Confucius and Mencius but also make a systematic comprehensive in the Chinese thought history for the first time, which has an important status and influence in the Chinese thought history. This article sets the Xunzi's outlook for honor and dishonor thought to a broad background of Pre-Qin period the rich complex social life and the thought-culture, elaborates comprehensively the Xunzi's outlook for honor and dishonor content, the structure and the system from philosophy, thinks the Xunzi's outlook for honor and dishonor thought is the outlook for honor and dishonor ideological system including the outlook for honor and dishonor occurrenclism, valuelism, the main-body levelism, essenclism and typelismThis article thinks Xunzi elaborate the outlook for honor and dishonor production from the objective social basis, the subjective psychological foundation and the epistemology three aspects, if you use the right outlook for honor and dishonor, it can make you understand truth, stop fighting, correct temperament and put down safety, which explains the outlook for honor and dishonor has a huge social and individual value." first righteousness and then benefits is the advantage glory, first benefits and then righteousness is shame" that show "righteousness" stipulating for the essence of honor, "righteouslessness" stipulating for the essence of shame on it's essence. On typelism of honour or disgrace, Xunzi divided honor and dishonor into "righteouslessness", "snobbish'according to the difference of uniting honour or disgrace and righteouslessness or interests. In his opinion, honor have "righteousness glory", "snobbish glory", dishonor have "righteousness shame","snobbish shame", "righteousness glory" and "righteousness shame"are conform with the moral significance, "snobbish glory" and "snobbish shame"are conform with the dismoral significance, they are united in the ideal society, and opposited in the dark society. Xunzi insistes that the society should improve the unification of the above,and he discriminates the main levels of the opinion of honor and dishonor according to the different requirement to normal bodies with different normal bodies should have different the thought of outlook for honor and dishonorFinally, in order to provide some theory references for the socialism outlook for honor and dishonor construction, this article briefly elaborates historical status and the influence of the Xunzi's outlook for honor and dishonor thought, and has been carried on the modem transformation. T...