Waking The Moral Consciousness - Zhu Xi Accomplishments

Chu Hsi is a greatest ideologist after Confucius in Chinese traditional ideology history . He Lived in the troubled times that politics and economy were recessive , and that Buddhism and Daoism were prevailing, and that Confucianism was at a low ebb . For reinvigorating Confucianism , Chu Hsi put forward the theory of moral culture which is characteristic of arousing the deeply-sleeping moral seif-consciousness . By advocating moral self-consciousness and realizing the transform from shelter to conspicuousness all his best, Chu Hsi tried to accomplish a self-transcendence of Confucianism . Moral self-consciousness protruded by Chu Hsi now is also a little ignored and then should be emphasized in the current moral construction . And just based on this, the article expatiates on moral self-consciousness remarkably shown in Chu Hsi's theory of moral culture from four lays . Firstly, the author confirms the original meaning of moral self-consciousness and accordingly it provides the subjective resources for the procedure of moral culture . Secondly, the author analyzes the reasons of the deeply-sleeping moral self-consciousness , and consequently it affords the necessary repertory for the procedure of moral culture . Thirdly, the author dissertates the method of arousing moral self-consciousness and stands out the necessary of the particularity of the method for the procedure of moral culture . Lastly, the author discusses the value of the theory from the theoretic and realism dimensions: as it's realistic value in Chu Hsi's theory, the accenting on the state-affairs-managing with the moral and being the same moral with civilian through the explanation of the sage -state and the anticipation on realism or the correction of monarch , not only indicates Chu Hsi's thought-way to salvation, but also provides important reference for current universal moral exaltation ; as its theoretic value in Chu Hsi's theory, the understanding of the relation between heaven and human has creatively developed Confucianism culture theory ,and the insisting on belief moral through reason , the emphasizing on soul through the moderate concern of subject and the stressing on life through the feasibility of method not only indicate the self-contained conformation of the moral culture theory , but also provide available revelations for current moral construction in the establish of belief, the moral method of moderate ego-attention and the living of moral.