Study On Feng's Viewpoint Towards Life And Death

Feng Youlan was one of the most influential philosopher and philosophical historian in twentieth century, and his academic career can be described as the "three ancient and modern history of release, six million books Jizhen." Many experts and scholars conduct all-round, multi-level and multi - Dimension researches. Among the studies on Feng, there are some on his Metaphysics and methodology; some on philosophy, works on history of philosophy; some also on his point of view of culture, art, and so on, involving in all aspects of thinking, And the studies on his view of philosophy of life are particularly ripe.Feng, following Li School, formed two worlds of the true structure and the actual reality, and a new system of philosophy and jurisprudence. In his view, "the purpose and the function of philosophy are to establish an ideal life." Philosophy can not increase our real knowledge, but can improve our life confines. His philosophical idea is served as its basis.The viewpoint towards life and death is an integrated expression of the philosophy of life. Feng's philosophy of life contains a wealth of ideas of the concept of life and death, illustrating his unique reflection on life and death. He proposed a mediate philosophy of life, which is the basic point of view of philosophy of life. Based on his new Lixue, he portrays a meaningful world, by the use of "positive" approach and "negative" approach to view the death confines from the life confines. The meaningful world implies a sequence of life confines: the nature confines, the utilitarian and moral confines, the world confines, which are an unseparatable whole. Feng also pointed out that the means of improving life confines is Nirvana. In the view of life confines, Feng described four different patterns of viewpoint toward life and death so as to illustrate his view of life and death. Feng's view of life and death plays an important role in the modern ideal life and building a harmonious society.