On Cai Shangsi's Philosophical Theory Of Culture

Mr.Cai Shangsi is a famous culture historian and thought historian in the contemporary China. And he is an exponential of Mohism as well. All in his life, he had been crying up for Mohism and against Confucianism. After deep consideration, he finally brought up a point that the hard core of Confucianism is Ritual, not Humaneness. He almost denied all of Confucianism entirely, only except for its theory of education. On the contrary, he almost agreed with all of the points of Mohism. The form of his view for culture was closely related to his growing up, family influence and times background. Mr. Cai animadverted on Chinese traditional feudalism culture, and denied the existence of culture nationality based on ages and classes of culture. But Mr Cai agreed on the good Chinese culture tradition, he expatiated on his point and tries to enlarge the good part of Chinese culture in his literature called . He studied the connection among culture, economy and politics, and explored the dialectical way for the culture development. He deemed that the western civilization should be affirmed and be learned from the western verity for the development of Chinese culture simultaneously. He criticized the conservatives after May Fourth Movement, meanwhile he adequately affirmed the effect which created by the activities, and especially praised that they bring the scientific theory of Marxism to China timely. Mr Cai had the deep thought of Wei-Min Thought in his life and he protested that science should get development among the competition. But his opinion always shows absoluteness "Yes or no", this attitude definitely leads to the disfigurement of his personal learning. Totally speaking, to study Mr Cai Shangsi's culture opinion can supply for the reference and experience, which is helpful for us to know how to treat traditional culture, to persist in" human first", to show our humanism care, even to build up a harmonious society, to accelerate the culture of harmonious society, to enhance the cultural strength.