Tan Sitong Political Ethics Study

In the sino-japanese war, the government of qing defeat not only has declared the"westernization movement" bankruptcy, but also unprecedented intensifies the ching courtruling crisis and national crisis. Facing the ever increasing decline and corrupt qing dynastyrule, however in grief and indignation and pay more, more determined his political reform,the determination of the revolution and unyielding. However with unique Angle of view andopen horizon, and school basis and reference for the study the advanced western politicalcivilization, as well as within them, mastery, eventually founded its own political ethicsthought out. However not only has the profound knowledge, but also has the uniquepersonality charm, leaving him after the failure in the wuxu reform movement, to face the lifeand death, for political reform to lives of revolution, in order to show the importance ofpolitical reform reform. This paper attempts to benevolence tan sitong thought as abreakthrough, with new visual Angle to analyze the political ethics.In the first part of this paper, mainly introduces tan sitong’s political ethics producebackground of times and theory origin. At the time, the China for internal conflicts, thegovernment of qing rule decayed incompetence, internal implementation cruel oppression andexploitation, the creatures of misery, indeed; Foreign knees to surrender, signed manyprotesting the unequal treaties, China on politics and the economy ravaged by imperialismand plunder, but also in the realm of culture were imperialist powers penetration and slavery.However know that only political reforms, to save the Chinese in distress. At the same time inits political ethics has deep thoughts origin, mainly including the Confucian doctrine of"people-oriented" thought, mo zi "love" thought, wang fuzhi’s "materialist view of the tao,simple thought of dialectics" and Buddhism "salvation" spirit, and his western social scienceand natural science knowledge, that together constitute the tan sitong the main source ofpolitical ethics.In the second part of this paper, introduces tan sitong’s political ethics main content,including: first is the traditional autocratic political ethics of criticism. To the feudal moralcodes of GangChang tan sitong political ethics launched an unprecedented slams, points outits people thought of the shackles of even the body destruction; Second, it is "the etheric namely benevolence or sexual" political ethics theoretical basis. Through to the "etheric","benevolence","sex" category, this paper has discussed the perspective that is human natureinterpretation he is good, emphasis on social concern about people, love, opposition to thehuman nature destruction, and laid a theoretical foundation of political ethics; Third,it isbenevolence-the-equal political ethics idea. Benevolence is love, is selfless desire not loftyrealm, however this is the core content of political ethics. Points out that "tong" is the essenceof "benevolence" first, the "tong", namely sino-foreign tong, up and down the, the men andwomen on the inside and outside, I reached "equality", that is the ideal datong society, threeare related to each other, unified whole, to form a political reform practice guidance thepolitical ethics idea; Four is an ideal social political ethics construction. For democratic politytan sitong speak highly, his political ethics thought the goal is the establishment of ademocratic, equality, freedom of datong society.In the third part of this paper, main analysis of tan sitong’s political ethics evaluation andcontemporary value, of which the evaluation include progressive and limitations, the theory ofadvancement and age to give positive evaluation of progressive this paper also analyzes thepolitical ethics tan sitong the contradiction and the deficiencies; The contemporary politicalethics tan sitong value is mainly manifested in, authoritarian ethics culture of criticism, andthe pursuit of democracy, equality, freedom of thought and social change of the fusion of thepolitical culture of the three aspects, aims to praise tan sitong’s political ethics far-reachinginfluence on later generations.Political ethics have an important position in tan sitong thought system, is the corecontent of his thought. On one hand, it discusses the feudal moral the persecution of peoplemade a savage attack, revealed the dark rule of the feudal society, on the other hand,the paperimproved political ethics political views, has the very strong revolutionary, for the awakeningof the people in modern China has played a catalytic role. At the same time in itsrevolutionary spirit of sacrifice, great boost the morale of the revolutionaries, still haveincentive effect on later generations. So, tan sitong political ethics has important theoreticaland practical value, not only express the eager to build on tan sitong democracy, freedom, andequality of social desire, and to establish the practice of datong society after and hassignificance on the construction of socialist political civilization.