FengYoulan And Historical Materialism

Although Feng Youlan had not made the special system elaboration on the conception of history question yet, but in the philosophy history research and writing, he utilized and manifested each different conception of history, including the evolution history viewpoint, the dialectical history viewpoint and the historical materialism. In constructs the new Neo-Confucianism system in the process, Feng Youlan applied the new Neo-Confucianism natural view and deduced the social history domain, simultaneously he utilized the Chinese tradition conception of history and the historical materialism partial viewpoints friendly, and finally he formed his new Neo-Confucianism conception of history.As early as 20-30's in the 20th century, Mr. Feng's philosophies embodied the Marxism historical materialism"….A little influence ......."[1]-p230 only after that came the substantial achievement which obtained in its new Neo-Confucianism conception of history, which caused the posterity all to fade from the memory of Mr. Feng's early time when he was influenced a lot by the historical materialism. To some extent, after the People's Republic of China had been established and changed the objective environment, Mr. Feng also wish to change his theory to the Marxism as well as the historical materialism. But we can also seek the root from in its early thought actually.After 1949, along with the philosophic thinking transformation, as well as the society political context influence at that time, Feng Youlan gave up the new Neo-Confucianism conception of history on his own initiative, and changed to the historical materialism more or less, but in historical materialism utilization, he experienced a hard time.After 1980's, Feng Youlan restored academically self-confident, he utilized the historical materialism partially, deepened to the Chinese philosophy history research, proposed some valuable viewpoints. Specially in "Newly organized Chinese philosophy history" sixth, seventh volume, Feng Youlan gave up the class struggle as the central revolutionary history viewpoint, and took"the modernization"as China's historical proposition. He proposed many"extremely strange theory", which provided other one kind of field of vision, and the way for us to understand the Chinese near contemporary history. It also manifested a philosopher's broad academic field of vision and the sincere historical concern.All these processes might be basically summarize to three stages. This article will separately launch the analysis, including the influence of Marxism historical materialism in the different time to the Feng Youlan's thought, as well as how Feng utilized the historical materialism, which will be bound to benefit us much.