Mou Zongsan "camp In Conscience" Paper Reviews

Since the May Fourth Movement, the Chinese society called for democracy and science,Mou Zongsan as representative of contemporary new Confucian scholar proposed the slogan,“inthe study of the inside saints learning to solve the new outside king”, which attempted totransform through Confucianism melting the western learning in a creative way. Mou Zongsanrelieved in the study of nature of Confucian disposition, absorbed Taoism, the Buddhist thoughtessence and profited from the Western philosophy in particular Kant’s philosophy in thefoundation to propose the theory of “conscience self digs a trap”, which as channels to achievedemocracy and science, mad the Chinese society and the Chinese culture go out the difficultposition. Mou Zongsan’s“conscience dug a trap” discusses has experienced two developmenttimes, the early time is proposed in order to solve the “new outside king” problem,the later iscard into moral metaphysics and to open the two layer ontology theory of the key.Reconstruction of “moral metaphysics” of the Confucian, is the core and the starting point of alltheory of Mou Zongsan, also is the core content of the theories “conscience digs a trap”.“Conscience digs a trap” discusses from proposed then has aroused attention and interest inacademic world, the supporter thought the theory of Mou Zongsan has revealed and opened anew way of “outside king” of the Confucian. The liberalism read extensive ethic smelling flavorfrom the Confucian school, and criticized it as “conscience of the arrogance”. Also has thetheoretical divergence in the disciples of Mou Zongsan, there appeared primarily protections ofthe religion represented by Li Minghui and stamped by innovation faction Lin Anwu, YangRubin and so on splendor. The mainland scholars studied Mou Zongsan’s theory have theacademic separation, many scholars like Fang Keli insisted the Marxism official standpoint, butJiang Qing et al. plunged into the arms of new Confucianism, and formed a new thought ofConfucianism mainland politics.This article uses the research approach which whites historical inspection and theorycriticism, comb “the conscience digs a trap” of Mou Zongsan, on which bases form my ownevaluation. We think the formation and the evolution of “conscience digs a trap” which discussesis the essential link to Chinese modern thought history, conducting the scholarly research to it isthe necessary premise for Contemporary China academic development. Mou Zongsan proposedthe modernization must persist the Chinese traditional nation culture and spirit, the core and thesupport role which plays in the culture modernization, simultaneously criticizes and regards theWestern culture dialectically, being bases in own foundation to start out the innovation of shape and connotation, this still had the important model significance today. But at the same time weshould also note, that since the insufficient understanding of the China historical developmentcontinuity, Mou Zongsan’s “the conscience digs a trap” discusses also has the historicallimitations and the wrong cognition theory. However whether its theory of positive contribution,or limitations of it, both have provided the important enlightenment and the theory value for theChinese culture modernization.