Study On Political Philosophy Ideas Of Zhang Dong Sun

Zhang dong sun was the famous philosopher and political commenter in theearly 20th century, he was interested in philosophy, also zealous politics. Zhang dongsun tried to change the tradition in which Philosophy sets up the system based onnoumenon in China. He wanted to set up the philosophy of his own according to boththe philosophy in western countries and knowledge. Undoubtedly, the establishmentof new philosophy system after May 4tn Movement began with Zhang dong sun. Heoriented to the road of Kant, that is the attitude of knowledge precedence, and hisphilosophy system began with the knowledge and ended with the knowledge, and wasalways concentrated on the philosophy system based on knowledge. He educed thecosmology from which he then educed philosophy, at the same time, formed moralityfrom knowledge. In the philosophy system based on knowledge, he brought forwardthe assertion that knowledge is value, thus set up his own political philosophyideology system.After the comprehension and reflection to the political ideology in westerncountries and traditional social culture in China, Zhang dong sun advocated theideology of the democratic socialism. During the ideal process of realizingdemocratic socialism, he claimed that scholar that is intellectual were the main forcefor achieving the democracy, opposed intensive social reformation, and denied thatrevolution was the loco of history. He desired that China achieved independence andprosperity with the development of economy, ultimately realized the democraticsocialism. He also protested that we should conciliate the cultures issue betweenChina and western countries rather than conflict. Both the west culture and Chineseculture have its own advantages, the west culture contains freedom, democracy andhuman rights, while Chinese culture pays more attention to the ethic idea and diademideology. However, we can find the conjunction between west culture and Chinesecultures, then convert confilction to the consonance, thus upbuild the cultural basis ofrealizing political system of the west mode.The purpose of studying the political philosophy ideology of Zhan dong sun is that we should assimilate the benefit aspects and discard the fallacy ones, research thespirit of developing the useful and discard the useless. The scheme of bourgeoisierepublic proved by practice is impracticable in China. Society demanded new schemeand new solution, only through thorough theory, can we master the demos utterly. It isthe history who selects the Marxist socialism to save China. Nonetheless, we shouldretrospect to the history, not look on the philosophy by virtue of the pragmatism, evennot criticizes the philosophy by means of political criterion. We should recognize thenew idea which not happened before in the political philosophy ideology of Zhangdong sun, and assimilate the useful in the political philosophy ideology of Zhangdong sun.