Mao Tse-tung's Transcendence To Chinese Traditional Philosophy

The chinese revolution acquired victory with the guide of Mao Tse-tung philosophy, the shape of Mao Tse-tung philosophy was the result of transcendence to the chinese traditional philosophy, and Mao Tse-tung researched the particularity of contradiction with Marxist Philosophy's basis principle. So, it has important theory value and realistic meaning to conscientiously study the ralationship of Mao Tse-tung and Chinese traditional philosophy.Mao Tse-tung's transcendence to chinese traditional philosophy reflected three aspects:first, in the epistemology aspect, Mao Tse-tung criticized and inherited the merits of heavy practice and subjective dynamic role in ancient philosophy, overcame the traditioanal knowing and doing view lacking the logical thinking and the dialectical understanding limitation, and reversed the ethical tendency of the traditional knowing and doing view. He also has carried on the detailed elaboration with science analysis method to dialectical process and intrinsic mechanism of knowledge, and has formed two leaps epistemology: from the perceptual knowledge to the rational knowledge, and from rational knowledge to practice. Second, in the dialectics aspect, there were abundant contradiction transformation thought in traditional philosophy, specially had very classical elaboration on the contradiction transformed condition, Mao Tse-tung criticized and inherited it, elaborated the contradiction transformed condition and form in detail. On the same time, Mao Tse-tung overcame the limitation of neglect the particularity of contradiction in traditional yinyang theory, dialectically analyzed the relationship of universality of contradiction and particularity of contradiction, elaborated the particularity of contradiction existence and the particularity of contradiction character for the praxis demand. Through these, Mao Tse-tung realized the transcendence to chinese traditional yinyang theory. Third, in the history view aspect, chinese traditional history view is one kind of heroic history viewpoint, the understanding of history is one kind of simple circulation theory. Mao Tse-tung formed wholeheartedly served for the people thought, which based on the theory of people create history, and took the mass road as the realization way. Thus, Mao Tse-tung really realized"people as the first", transcended the ancient humanism thought.In brief , Mao Tse-tung's transcendence to chinese traditional philosophy reflected three respects: epistemology,contradiction theory and history view. He realized the modernization tendency of chinese traditional philosophy, and pointed out the modern outlet of chinese traditional philosophy.