A Brief Analysis Of The Philosophy Of Personality In The Warring States Period

The philosophy of personalism is an crucial and eye-catching ideology, based on the good and evil of human nature, as well as the specific standards of ren(benevolence), yi(righteousness), li(rite), zhi(wisdom) and xin(faithfulness), guiding people’s behavior and criteria of value in Chinese traditional culture. The philosophy of personalism has a profound influence on Chinese economy, politics, culture, as well as many other aspects throughout the history of Chinese civilization with thousands of years. Nevertheless, in modern and contemporary China, with a large number of introductions of western science, technology and culture, unfortunately, people had ignored that the philosophy of personalism might play a shaping role in morality. Therefore, when facing the West, China is always in a weakness condition and descends her culture to the “dependency”.For this reason, this paper will have a brief introduction to the philosophy of personalism of Zhanguo Ce Clique best-known during the period of Anti-Japanese War by interpreting the sequence of main contents and thoughts of its philosophy of personalism: the westernized philosophy of personalism, the Sino-West appositional philosophy of personalism and the chinese-returning philosophy of personalism with an entirely new framework of analysis, using “origination”, “exploration” and “perfection” as the keywords to explain a viewpoint that though Zhanguo Ce Clique’s thought was a product of the connection through marriage with western thought, resembling a quiet and beautiful cymbidium, was still manifested with the core of Chinese philosophy of personalism, as well as promotes the philosophy of personalism of Zhanguo Ce Clique as the “dependency” to the position of the “master”.Eventually, through the reflection and reconstruction of Zhanguo Ce Clique’s thought, this paper may attract our attention to our attitude to western civilization at present. We are supposed to learn the combination of western thought and the reality in China, the protection, continuation and innovation of our traditional culture, as well as the cultivation of the healthier personality, rather than the worship of the West. In other words, we should deepen the essence of our traditional culture even-temperedly and good-humoredly, in order to provide a real source of power for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.