The Of Xiong Shili Political Philosophy Studies

XiongShili put great emphasis on actively advocating Chinese traditions, criticizingand re-interpreting the value of Chinese traditions under the circumstance of modernChinese political society and preventing them fading in his theory of philosophy ofpolitics. What he thought and what he did are closely related to his military career andexperience in Chinese thinking circle.As one of the first generation of representative figures of neo-Confucianism,XiongShili, witnessing the large scale of destruction of war and political corruption inChina decades ago, established his own philosophy system with the way of mentalanalysis of Buddhism and the forms of Confucianism and made outstanding contributionto the successiveness of Chinese traditional culture. In his philosophy thoughts, politicalthoughts is shown by the theories of 'cultivating oneself' and 'applying one's politicalthinking in social practice', which both are an integrity not separated. These politicalthoughts have been developed by the latter Chinese advanced intellectuals and played anenlightment role in the present socialist political construction.