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Analysis Of Mencius, "Showing Your Mind So That You Know Your Nature And Heaven." Of The Philosophical Thinking

Posted on:2010-02-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H Y WanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360272997679Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Mencius said:"Do their own mind in order to understand their own nature .Understand the nature will be able to understand the fate . Mind will can cultivate human nature, that is the way to deal with fate."("Mencius").Mind, nature, heaven and the relationship between the three Mencius thought issue is very important and made a very profound theoretical study. According to Mr. Yang bo jun of "Mencius" a book of statistics, the "mind" 121 times a word, "nature" is the word appeared 37 times, "heaven" word as much as 289 times the frequency . Mencius want a deep understanding of the " showing your mind so that you know your nature and heaven. " the philosophy of the profound ideological connotation and meaning, first of all need to be aware of "mind" and "nature", "heaven" the basic meaning.In "Mencius", a book, "mind" can be divided into the natural heart and thinking mind. "nature" are the natural attributes and social attributes. Mind is the mind. Nature is the nature. Both in the conceptual difference is that strict. "heaven" has three meanings, nature days, the heaven of moral, is the key to the fate of the heaven. " showing your mind so that you know your nature and heaven." that is the intellectual of the conditions, knowledge of the conditions is known to- heaven. Eventually, the most fundamental thing is to know heaven. if we can achieve direct knowledge of the heaven , no other aspect of the thing. Heaven , not direct knowledge of the object, is to reflect on the object. It has been to know heaven by nature; and not directly know the object. it has been through the mind to nature. "Mind", with two requirements of, first, to keep from the natural state that most of the really mind. Second is to use mind extended to the extreme, and that is the highest state of consciousness. Through the unification of the two links, both to ensure that among the three concentric heaven the most primitive of the true state of the uniform, but also the realization of human practice, the unity of the mental heaven.Mind of Mencius, the relationship between heaven of different angles from the study show that in this article from the"out of the self-proclaimed" to "Five Elements" to"The Doctrine of the Mean", and"Mencius", to analyze the relationship between Mencius on the mind- heaven, ontology and epistemology in two points of view, to explain the relationship between Mencius on the mind- heaven, in the cultivation of the mental grasp of Mencius- heaven reality of unity.Phenomenology has provided us with an alternative understanding of the philosophy of Mencius, and even prompted China, this article in the issue of Husserl's phenomenology in the light, thinking of Mencius " showing your mind so that you know your nature and heaven. " The Philosophical Significance. Mencius believed that the full expansion of human mind, that is, to understand the human nature, to understand the human nature is to know the fate. Mind keep people cultivate human nature, and this is the way to deal with fate. Mind, and the relationship between heaven , Mencius, Confucius developed the idea, but will know the mind to establish the nature basis, meaning very reasonable.
Keywords/Search Tags:Mind, nature, heaven
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