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Research To Mencius' History View

Posted on:2008-10-17Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z YunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242457285Subject:History of Ancient China
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The historical view with Mencius concentrates the main body of a book for core, having discussed Warring States middle later period philosophers historical view characteristic.The main body of a book is thought: Mencius's historical view has embodied the cognition taking clan commune as main social structure east area sage to history, it has been to take clan as one's own post, centering on morality reason , has striven to avert morality reason and historical reason between conflict , explore morality reason and historical reason balance.But that Mencius has sighing with emotion "that the winner encourages necessarily to 500 years" is really not that history circulation is contrary in terms of embodiment, Mencius thinks that history is to march on without cease , concrete process is "yi xia bian yi " , Mencius thinks that human society can only from Gothicism evolution arrive at civilization, being not able to backward going , this happened is the history evolutionism. which been supported by Mencius morality reason historical concept.Taking Mencius as the Confucian School morality reason ,which is different from the Daoist and Legalist philosophy of history, in the latter, the morality factor is denied , the historical view embodying out one kind of historical reason thereby, is to think that morality does not play role in the history development process.This Historical reason historical view is held whose end by Lao Zi, Lao Zi thinks that the "dao grows one, one grows two. two grows three , three grows all things on earth". ,All things on earth comes into being all from the "dao", and should accord with the regulation of the "dao" .but "the dao abolishing, the kindheartedness and justice coming into being", kindheartedness and justice comes into being under the position that the dao has been abolished, the history course embodies in morality's right away to decay gradually to go ahead. The viewpoint proceeds from this , Lao Zi denies people's desire. This is inherited by Han Fei to some extent. Han Fei thinks that people's nature is to hasten after wealth and avoid damage, therefore he thinks that society controls and removes disorder is decided by the amounts of money and goods Han Fei's Pure historical reason historical view has reflected the sages' thingking about history in Shanxi Province middle and later period Warring States...
Keywords/Search Tags:Mencius, Historical view, Historical reason, Morality reason
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