Comparison On The Thought Of Good And Evil Between WangYangming And Augustine

Humanity and wether it is good or evil are human being's eternal topic. To Comfucianism, they are the direct problem, the ultimate purpose of being saint and man of virtue and the ethical principles in reality world are namely directly related to them. In Christianity, the God's saintly is contradictory to the the good and evil in reality world, which makes their relation become a great theotitical topic to make academic explanation.From the point of view about the thought of good and evil between Comfucianism and Christianity, dialectically understanding between the reality and transcendence is their the commonest character. In this case, it is of great cultural comparative significance to analyse the difference and similarity of the two culture systems, taking the thought of good and evil of WangYangming and Augustine as the study target.The thesis is divided into three parts:The first part is to carefully analyse the sainty of the innate knowledge, the innate knowledge and good , from the state of having neither the good nor evil to the state of having the good and evil, the theory of Kungfu in Yangming's thought.The second is to concentrate on the analysis on Augustine's thought of good and evil, including his idea of God, theory of good and evil as well as the idea of grace and freedom, and specifically elaborate the God's sainty, sainty and being, creation and good, freewill and evil and so on.The third part is to elaborate the different and common characters about good and evil between the Confucianism that WangYangming stands for and the Christianity that Augustine stands for.