On Liu Zhiji 's Thought Of Seeking Truth From Facts

Written by Liu Zhiji, "Shi Tong" is the ancient Chinese first systematic summary of historical theory and method of monographs, occupies the important position in the academic history and the history of historiography. Liu Zhiji in the "Shi Tong" showed him about the historical reality of thought. The history of Liu Zhiji’s truth thought into in fact the practicality and value in the level of goodness. The realistic means he advocated to record history as the fact.Seeking goodness refers to him as required in the Mingjiao. Record history as the fact and boosting Mingjiao together constitute the basic content of his idea of historical truth. Liu Zhiji’s seeking truth method is about collect historical data, the content of history books, the style of history books, the narrative of history books and the three kind of talent about historians. Liu Zhiji through the aspects of the requirements to achieve the historian of historiography of the pursuit of true. With Liu Zhiji as the representative of the traditional historians of truth lies not only in the history of historiography of the authenticity of the pursuit, is still on the historical function objective pursuit. The contradiction Chinese traditional historians had properly handled the truth-seeking and application in historiography. History is based on truth, that used for the purpose, these two show together and inseparable. While the Western historians on the history of the pursuit of true is about the objectivity of history. In pursuit of the truth of history as the first objective and conditions, and authenticity is not equal to the objectivity. Objectivity is regulated by the life of a certain range of time and space of human inside a series of ethical value judgement. With Liu Zhiji as the representative of the traditional historians have life time is based on Confucian ethics value judgement, such as write history as Confucian rites was the objectivity. History of the pursuit of the true only in a certain extent of the true, but not completely to restore the historic site. Historians can only continue to explore, to near historical turth by their research activities. Objectivity is a kind of common rules of the society, only then determined relative to the subject. The pursuit of objectivity of history should not be blindly reject subjectivity and historians’ subject status.