The Study On Hu Shi's Family Ethics Thought

Hu Shi is one of the most influential scholars in modern Chinese history of thought, as a representative man in China's social transition time from the traditional Community to a modern one, he had highlighted achievements in philosophy, literature, and other ideological and cultural aspects, and had a broad impact at the time and after in the historical process. Hu Shi's the marriage and family ethics thought is an important component of his ideology, researching this thought not only help Understand his ideology and theory deeper, But also can have a deeper understanding of ideological and cultural situation in modern Chinese society in transition ideological and cultural situation.Any idea has the profound ideological and cultural background. The victory of the Revolution of 1911 did not touch the feudal family system of two thousand years of fundamentally, Conservative custom still detained the human body and thoughts like the same trap, independent personality was absente, people hadn't free development, The overwhelming majority of the masses of women at the bottom of society was pressed by feudalist deepestly, there was no independent jobs and economic status, Hence the so-called gender equality, freedom of marriage in reality were often difficult to implement. Hu Shi's family ethics thought was to meet the needs of the times. Secondly, Hu Shi's personal life experiences of his family also had a tremendous impact to his ethical thought. Hu witnessed the tragic experiences of his mother and two maternal aunt, and saw the drawbacks of the feudal family and marriage. When studied in the United States, Hu saw another very different family and marital life, After their return to China, Hu had a profound reflection and criticism on marriage and feudal families. Hu used a sound individualism as theoretical basis, conducted a profound ethical criticism to the traditional marriage and family ethics, and formed the family ethics thought that had the basis of an independent personality and the core of gender equality.Despite Hu Shi's family ethics thought lacked system and retighten in the angle of the subject system, however the content is very rich, what he discussed were important ethical issues that Closed reality.Hu Shi's family ethics thought can be divided into four parts. First of all, he gave Particular concern to the female that were as main one of the marriage ethics, and emphasised on the significance of the women's liberation particularly. Hu Shi thought that the women's liberation is Prerequisites to achieve an independentment of woman's personality and equality, education was the fundamental way to realize the liberation of women. Secondly, to the marriage ethics that was an important component family of the family ethics, Hu Shi Put forward many important thoughts such as love-based marriage, the freedom of marriage, equal virginity thought between men and women. Such thought shaved the traditional moral values highly. Third, to the thought of inter-generational ethical issues that was an important part of the other family ethics, Hu Shi also put forward his own views. Based on "father had no kindness to son" and "no future generations thought", gave a feudal criticism to filial piety. From the relationship between moral choose and ethical responsibility ,he discussed the unreasonablity of the feudal filial piety, thinked that the children were a independent individuals, independent person. Opposed children were only "filial piety" sons, but also the community's responsibility, opposed the feudal unreasonable inherited system and so on. In this part, Hu also discussed the Family Education. The fourth is about the family education thought. Hu Shi believed that family education would be inevitable way to change the family ethics. Hu attached great importance to mothers in their children's education process, and called for attention to the children's education on training awareness of"pay attention to study", "independent" and "teamwork".Hu Shi's family ethics thought had the created role at the time under the historical conditions. In the theory, there were the guidance role on the new Family Ethics's direction and establish. In practice, there were the new tendencies value. Some of thought still have a certain positive role in today. Of course, due to the reasons of Hu Shi's ideological purport, class position and the times, the limitations of his thought can not be ignored.