The Thought Of Sushi Mencius

Early years of the song dynasty, the rulers started attaches great importance tothe ideological and cultural construction,advocated Confucianism,Buddhism andTaoism. Buddhism and Taoism to take this opportunity to get a great development,even in the part of the occupied territory of Confucian thought. In the face of thegreat development of Buddhism and Taoism, Confucianism gradually realize ownexistence question.Thus, Confucian scholars had been started a vigorousConfucianism revival movement. In the movement, the Confucian scholars learn alot from Mencius.The Confucian scholars who support Mencius appeared.In contrast,formed a suspicion of Mencius trend. In the movement, the most worthy of study isSushi.Sushi’s attitudes towards Mencius, has traditionally been referred to as asuspicion of Mencius，I thinks that, however, Sushi’s Mencius, it is more suitable tobe called "debate with Mencius". Sushi’s "Mencius" is dialectical and rational. In his"Explain the analects of Confucius", the debate with Mencius on eight aspects, mostof them are pointed out the different from Confucius and Mencius thoughts, only thehuman nature and the contingency is the core of thoughts.Sushi Don’t agree with that the human nature is good.he thought that Thehuman nature is no good without evil. He thinks that human nature and sentiment isunified, human nature is the emotional performance’s abstract generalization. Sushi’shuman nature includes natural and social ethics.human nature is the foundation ofhuman survival and not to die out. But man can pursue a higher level of society ofhuman nature on basis the nature of humans.People are different fromanimals.People need to live together with others.So need the restrictions of humannature to make it comply with the rules so that everyone has their own position. Thus,sushi put forward the ceremony what from the emotion and the men’s choice. Mendoesn’t reflect on "respect"for ethical and moral, but the human nature.For Mencius’ thought of contingency, Sushi is not fundamentally deny but a bitagainst. He thinks that the contingency is the opposite of etiquette.when we useundeserved, it can appear personally "private rights".So he against personal changefor etiquette. In his theory of human nature, the ritual is the result of emotional thatpeople can not easily change.In addition to debate with Mencius, Sushi also support Mencius.He use Mencius to explain other books, inheritance the thought of people-based.He thinksMencius’ contribution to the great.Sushi’s Mencius balances the reformers’ influence. Also conducive to a morereasonable view of Mencius’ views and ideas. His theory of human nature against forthe Neo-Confucianism. It’s contribute to reserve human nature.