| Liang Shuming is the representative of modern Neo-Confucianism. His "human's mind" theory is not only the development of Confucian theory, but also the explanation his own life and values theory.Liang Shuming's "human's mind" theory is divided into three stages, the human nature, the people's minds and the life. Human nature is human to distinguish itself from the characteristics of animals. This wisdom is not only to seek a simple basic necessities just likes the animals do, but also to confirm the wisdom inherent in human nature itself. And Liang Shuming said "human's mind", is that the people's mental activity and thought features. Feature of heart is the ability to dominate things. He divided the dominate characteristics of the heart into two aspects, the one is its own initiative, the other is called domination outsides. It gets to know the outside world, and be able to recognize their inherent properties. The reason lies in man's fundamental is the human's mind, the good of humanity generated by passing of the dominant role. Under the action of the heart, human is to have the wisdom and consciousness, which can dominate the effect of man's own mental activities and external behavior. Internal and external activities of the human is formed the life. The dividing line between people and animals is that people have "human's mind" but animals not; while the heart is different from the animal heart, will reflect in the distinctions between the people and animals caused by differences in the human's mind. The heart can not be divided. That is to say, understanding people, and analyzing people aimed at understanding people, analyzing people. Specifically, that is going to guide to better life, to solve the various problems in life. Liang Shuming's "people's mind" theory settled down in practice of life, tried to solve the problem the way of life, which can be seen as the purpose for his thoughts.Liang Shuming's "people's mind" have three basic concepts, the instinct, the intellect, the rational. Instinct is born with the ability of the human. Born there's a natural instinct, in this point, human beings and other organisms are similar. Instinct in the human intellect is at an advanced stage of development, intellect and instinct is inextricably linked. Summary of life instinct to be resolved two things, the individual to survive and reproduce races. The instinct of the development starts with diet by the most original, and gradually evolves out of the unique high life of "the instinct to explore," "Game's instinct" and so on. The more advanced instinct is more need to use the role of the brain, and for humans, is the need to rely on role of "human'mind". This makes the importance of material life, transits to importance to the pursuit of spiritual life. Actions guided by instinct lead transitions to knowledge in rational. In this process, when the pursuit of knowledge is far from survive and reproduce completely, the reason will be out independently from the instincts and. Rationality has two meanings, first, rational comes from the further development of intellect. Intellectual development is fundamentally about is constantly progress of human's mind, for humans, instinct, intellect and reason are not only the discussing issue made by human's mind for different levels of the different reactions, but also the people the development of several stages. Secondly, the factors of constituting a rational are feelings and nothing private. Unlike the feelings of knowledge, it can not be drawn conclusions as relatively fixed as knowledge; As while, the feelings is not instinct, it does not consider gains and losses, or gains and losses are not already considered and rational, the more will not appear in the Reasons.Liang Shuming's "human's mind" theory based on instinct, common sense and rationality as his three basic concepts, its purpose is to explore the "life" and "morality" of human significance. One hand, he advocated the Big Life philosophy of human's life, one side he is respected tradition of Confucian ethics-based. The combination of both, under the Liang Shuming's "human's mind" theory is make his own life and the moral arguments describing the purpose and goal, and life and morality have become their "human's mind" theory of the core category. Morality is the practice of life, people will dominate people's lives. Heart and life, the moral here, together constitute the unique characteristics of human life. Liang Shuming's "human's heart" theory is the nature of mind the unity of theory and philosophy of life, it is to study the way people activities reveals the original meaning of human life, as also pointed out the various issues in life form above shapes of solutions. Key words: Liang Shuming, mind, reason, life, morality...
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