The Study Of "Enlightenment" Nature Of Xinyin Hes Ethical Thought

As a "thinkers having daring, courage and ideal ",and " philosophical thinking not only with his mind,but also with his strength of heart and body", the qualitative of Xinyin He ’s ethics thought has always beena controversial academic topic.Simply determine the nature of Xinyin He’s ethical thought as " heresy" and" secular" can not explainthe characteristics of Xinyin He’s theory, and, more cannot understand the social problems and possiblevalue of his ethical thoughts. Thus,re-examining on the own certainty of "enlightenment" standard, andfuther cmparing Xinyin He’s ethical thought with the enlightenment standards, it is not hard to find, theso-called "enlightenment" by western has the continuous development historic change, but also hasdifferent forms. However, it is no matter the historical practice of Western Renaissance enlightenment,orenlightenment thoughts expounded by enlightenment thinkers in different time case, all this enlightenmentexist extremely the same thing without exception, and it is the same thing, which make the enlightenmentthought has general significance. And this kind of a general sense, first, constantly highlighted the maincharacter and the all rights of human by criticizing on culture and values which blocked history and socialdevelopment in the tradition, or using the traditional idea of the "indoctrination", then establish a newvalue system by constantly strengthen and promote enduring theme such as freedom, equality, rational,tolerance, humanitarian. And to the value system with enlightenment properties or thought system in thewhole western before the20th century,can be said that, no matter whether how to express the specificcontent, in fact it eventually embodies humanitarianism, individualism, equality and liberalism.For the whole of Xinyin He’s ethical thought, although his though can not use the characteristic ofwestern enlightenment discourse, but, in fact, humanitarian, positive individualism, Harmonious equality and renegade via liberalism expressed by the Chinese words, is highly consistent with the theoreticaldirection of the western enlightenment thoughts before eighteenth Century. Differently, as the westernenlightenment thoughts in the development of western society embody to real practice, this kind of thoughthas also obtained the effective communication and identity, to become the significant study of that era. ButXinyin He’s ethical thought has not developed to be capitalist because of China’s capitalist germination, hewas persecuted because of giving lectures, his book was banned and his though was also as “heresy” for afairly long period.In fact, it is the capitalist sprout of Ming dynasty makes the commodity economy won more broad anddeep development, the product exchange in this commodity economic and demand for the artificial flowalso more strongly require the equality, free and independent consciousness, and constantly strengthenedthe feudal autocratic and all kinds of social contradictions. Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism not only lost inpersonal predicament theoretically, and deepen the social crisis and thoughts crisis increasingly exposedsince Ming dynasty. A large number of people had to start the continuing reflection on the effectiveness ofthe authoritarian system and the solution of increasingly contentious social contradiction. Xinyin He putforward his own value system in this review, and had formed a ethics thought system which has specificmeaning and enlightening properties.In conclusion, on the whole, Xinyin He’s ethical thought has general enlightenment significance.However, if we can more in-depth look at the problem that Xinyin He establish the new thought contentsystem and value system with the help of Confucius, Mencius and their established many concepts andideas that has strongly traditional culture gene content established by them, so, we can not only see theglory of new thought that has been covered by the obviously traditional culture gene content, and also canrealize the characteristics of Xinyin He’s ethics thought deeply.