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Interpretation Of Xunzi Of "gift" Philosophy

Posted on:2011-12-15Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Q LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305478466Subject:Chinese philosophy
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Pre-Qin period is the period of great change in Chinese society.Great changes in society determines the culture of great change.Therefore, the Pre-Qin was the golden age of Chinese thought, competition, each holding one said. Schools of thought, the central issue of concern is Peace and Prosperity, but the thinking from different perspectives. Face of the reality "Ceremony Disintegration,"Scholars to be negative end of a bow "Ceremony Disintegration" chaos, stability and social order as the main starting point,have put forward ideas and methods.Philosophers have pondered the question that the ritual is still continuing value? How to establish a new social order? Outside the Confucian school, basically Rite negative, derogatory attitude.Confucianism is still only a certain weekly ritual kiss Respect the spirit and meaning.Xunzi is a Confucian master of the late Warring States period, the same emphasis on the spirit and meaning of ancient ritual.He believes that the only effective saint ceremony outside the Kings, have touched the nature of within and outside of this as a foundation for building, running the state.On the largely inherited the Confucian ritual and tradition,but Xunzi thought that the ceremony is not rooted in the inner heart and mind, but rather an objective external standard, its ideological intellectualism has a distinctive feature. Xunzi, expanded the scope of the ceremony from Confucius and Mencius the greatest breadth of and ranges, the ceremony of the colorful and rich, no doubt been put forward for the social stability at a new train of thought.Xunzi's the basic source of the problem is how to build a harmonious world of objectively ritual. Xunzi's ideological and theoretical are thought to this issue as the source of. Proceeding from this basic source of the problem, this paper analyzes the ritual and the idea of origin and background, and then were from heaven, human and historical point of view of Xunzi the "ceremony" sources of values, then the meaning of ceremony, ritual function and how to grasp the propriety and justice of the Road, and so on.
Keywords/Search Tags:Xunzi, rite, Cosmic View, Evil nature, Ritual of origin and truth
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