Study On The Ethical Implications Of Feng Youlan’s Realm Of Life

Feng Youlan is one of founders of Chinese Philosophy and Chinese modern philosophy. The Realm of Life is one of the most systematic and scientific theories in his work of New Hominid. Thus the study of Feng Youlan’s Realm of Life will be a good topic. There are natural links between the meaning of Realm of Life and ethics, so in the perspective of ethics to research Feng’s Realm of Life is more important. Nowadays, as the economy develops, many people ethical landslide, or moral anomie. The paper studies Feng’s Realm of Life in the view of ethics to rebuild the socialist core value system.In the current political context, the research of Feng Youlan’s philosophy is conducive to further carry forward the traditional culture, enhance cultural awareness and self-confidence to laid a strong spiritual foundation, as well as achieve national prosperity and the "China Dream".Firstly, the paper introduces the historical background and theoretical origin of Feng’s Realm of Life. The Realm of Life produced in the time that our Chinese nation suffered aggression and intellectuals generally depressed, many people can not find the meaning of life. Feng Youlan, Hu Shi and Jin Yuelin as the representatives of intellectuals, they attempt to treat or relief the pains of people from various aspects.and boost the spirit of people. In the aspect of theoretical origins, Feng Youlan accepted the western philosophy edification, he studied under the pragmatism master Dewey. So the era of Western Learning background is an important factors for Feng’s philosophy development.The another theoretical origins is Chinese Philosophy, the paper mainly discusses three points---Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. Secondly, begin with the theoretical basis of the realm of Life---intuit, and then introduce the four kinds of Realm of Life detailed. He believes that people and animals are quite different, people have their own conscious to know what they are doing, Feng called this kind of characteristics intuit. He divided the life into four levels based on different levels of the intuits, from low to high are natural state, utilitarian realm, moral realm and world state, which is well-known as the Realm of Life. The third this paper mainly talks about Feng’s Realm of Life from the ethics of justice and benefit, humanity and moral. The Realm of Life followed the traditional Confucian idea that emphasize more about righteousness, but differently proposed a more moderate Righteousness unity from the traditional, at the same time, Feng put forward new theories of human nature and morality. In the ideal way of personality achievement, he comes up with the methods of step by step, divine and other ways. Finally, the paper tries to dialectically evaluate Feng Youlan’s Realm of Life with current social situation, analyze the moral support for the reconstruction of the social moral system, as well as the relaxed functions of world state to the various social contradictions, to reveal the contemporary value of Realm of Life.