On The Unity Of Xun Yue's Human Nature Thought And Political Thought

The discussion of human nature is an important topic in the history of Chinese philosophy, as well as being one of the concerts possessing the philosophic implication most. To person, Chinese philosophy is not simple form request remarks normally, or is the request to people's behavior, is to have probed the inherent deep basis, to have put forward different behavior regulations to person according to different basis.Xun Yue, as a political commentator and historian in the last years of Eastern Han Dynasty, whose human nature thought create and develop by the synthesis of forefathers'human nature theories and according to his own life experience and the political practice. Proposed the nature assistance the fate, the nature and the sentiment are corresponding, the law teaches to become second nature and so on the human nature thought. Xun Yue's human nature thought similarly has the function of inheriting the past and give enlightenment to the following generation in the Chinese philosophy history. Xun Yue's human nature thought is the foreshadowing on the political thought, is the philosophial foundation of its political understanding. Xun Yue deems the political behavior may also affect the human nature's existence, both of them are the united relations that complements one another.Xun Yue holds that an important concept related to nature is fate. The fate. Xun Yue thinks that "therefore the live of person's life-long is fate" .It is that the fate is maintain life's survive. The nature assistance the fate is the thought that from person's life intuition, the life does not exist , other is also not to have, therefore the fate is basic. The human nature follows the life, the different people can make the different human affairs behavior, and these behavior qualities can directly affect the existence stale of life.Xun Yue belives wicked sentiment is unreasonable. The human nature is intrinsic to the human body, has nature of the good and evil, showing the sentiment outside is the likes or dislikes. In other words, nature inside and sentiment outside, the sentiment is the nature's external performance, the sentiment's foundation is a nature. He thinks that, the sentiment has the tendency to the likes and dislikes, however, the likes and dislikes are not the good and evil, but the tendency to hobby. The good and evil are the behavior character's judgement. The good and evil are not sentiment, the sentiment also not good or evil. Both of them are the different tendency to concept, in different scope, they are essentially different.Xun Yue thinks that nature's good quality needs teaching to show. Nature sends for the sentiment in external, the nature and the sentiment cannot distinguish the self-evident friendly behavior. It requires the wise person to enlighten. Evil quality of nature, requires legal institutions to disappear and curb. The disappear and curb are not get rid of evil quality from the nature completely, but to suppress desire expansion, enable it to have dreads and can not become the evil conduct.Xun Yue's human nature thought, on the basis of political thought, mainly manifests in two aspects: One is the origin of political thinking is based on the human nature analysis, either said is person's need; on the other hand, some relations in political thinking and the human nature thought are mutually echo, either said is corresponds certain relations in the human nature thought to be. All in all, Xun Yue's human nature thought is the foundation of political thinking, which is the basis of political thinking's creation and existence.The influence of politics on the human nature by the regime and the political behavior which take guidance and restraint to people's behavior. This is external compels the influence process to people's inherent mentality transforming, thereby giving rise to people's habitual temperament.In brief, Xun Yue's political thought can express in personalization politics, which is the importance to people and the respect to people. Examines this question to get profits from the ancient and develop political civilization.