Taoism Of Ancient Philosophy Of Life And Its Contemporary Value

In new century, high development of productivity and the progressing at full speed of science and technology has brought great prosperity of the material life. However, with flourishing development of commodity economy , constant quickening of modernized paces and gradually deepening of reform and opening-up, our country is facing the deep change of the concept that is brought by the transition of the economy , politics and culture system at present, and people face puzzling in life . Moral false, spirit loss and faith deficit challenge to contemporary harmonious life of people. At the same time, from the whole world vision, people's pursuit of material, technology and utility occupies overwhelming dominant position while cultural life is ignored, disregarded and expelled day by day. People may turn into simple technical and practical animals without spirit pursuing and emotion life. It is times' demand to save spirit from the governance of material, technology and utility in order to solve common people's " disappearance of faith "," sense of loss of meaning ", " anxiety of spirit"," crisis in life ". The outlook on life of the Pre-qin Taoism that this dissertation studied offers a unique kind of visual angle and intelligence for the fact that we solve the subject of this era.From the respect of "Tao" ontology Pre-qin Taoism put forward and fully proved thought of outlook on life abundant with strong human and social care. All its life pursuit that life is more important than material, character ideal to return to nature, stable life attitude, modest manner in communicating with others and philosophical wisdom on life and death embody historical and contemporary value of outlook on life of the Pre-qin Taoism.The thought of outlook on life of the Pre-qin Taoism, as the result of specific era, must have its own historical and theoretical limitation, thus exert too passive an influence in history, too. However, the outlook on life of the fame and gain without worldly desires which the Taoist school puts forward , advocating the thought of natural and cherishing gentleness and inferior undoubtedly include deep even eternal life intelligence. It still has important enlightening meanings in solving our predicament in life as well as achieving harmonious social development of today.It can impel people to surmount material utility constantly and pay more attention to improving the quality of cultural life, participate in the social competition in a philosophical way .at the same time, it can maintain the stability of the civil order. What is more, it still can train people's tolerant psychology and harmonious consciousness, thus structure a more beautiful socialist harmonious society together.