Philosophical Speculation On Caocao's Life Awareness

Life issue is regarded as a everlasting theme in the development of human history. An apprehension of "life" and "death" and the consciousness of these two make the life issue saturate with profound philosophy. "Life awareness" is rightly generated from the mentioned apprehension and consciousness. Life consciousness is formed on the basis of life and above the life category., which is the embodiment of human's highly concern over the reality, the value of life and the existential significance of life. Furthermore, it is the extension of the pursuit of lifetime liberty, experience and sentiment; and in the meantime, a transcendency of affliction of life..In the trouble times of the late Han Dynasty, the pungency of the reality, however, allowed the spiritual thoughts to gain their liberations and publicize the individual life awareness. Caocao, a waver of flags and shouter of slogans during that period, when confronted with incessant battles and the capricious fate in the social realities, could either lamented the changeable life and the elapse of the lifetime, or longed for achieving his own accomplishments; and expressed his unique experience and consideration of life by all means, so as to reveal his ample feelings of life awareness.This paper orients toward a concern with an analysis of Caocao's life awareness from the perspective of philosophy. It begins with the background of the generation of Caocao's life awareness and then develops to the specific connotations which can be illustrated as the followings. That is, focus on the services for people as top priority, which will loiter between the "idealism" and "materialist dialectics", by the intermixture of a couple of thoughts such as precursors'ethos as canon, the worship of the practice instead of indulging in the vanity, Confucian rules as well, trying to uncover and analyze fully the philosophical senses containing in Caocao's life awareness. Meanwhile, it is expected that the discovery of life awareness and viewpoints can serve as the enlightenment to the people nowadays and the progress of the current society, so as to fulfill the study of purpose of "making the past serve the present".