The Research Of Zhou Dunyi’s Honesty Thought

When Confucianism developed to the Song Dynasty, Confucianism not only to keep the quintessence of Confucianism, but also need to combine the advantages of the new ruling ideas from Other Stoics. Furthermore, due to Buddhism and Taoism have become more popular, Confucianism, which is under the high pressure, start to assimilate the Buddhism Thought and Laozi’s Thought. The Thought of Honesty, which is created by ZHOU Dunyi, is produced in the background.Mencius says With ’Heart’ for spreading, it emphasizes the function of the ’Heart’ and the ’People’ and ’God’ is connected to ’Honesty’ and ’Heart’. Mencius unifies the way of heaven and the way of people through using the ’Honesty’. Xunzi, who is thinking from morality background, thinks this natural law is the ’Honesty’. Xunzi makes the ’Honesty’ as the only and best way to have the culture of body and soul for the people, and the culture of body and soul will help the people has ’Most Honest’ which does not need to use any other ways. In the book of Moderation, ’Honesty’ is emphasized the nature and humanity ideology. ’Honesty unifies the way of heaven’ , It states that ’Honesty’ is the universal ontology, but the ’Honesty’ focuses on through the nature and body. Therefore, the normal people can be get the ’Best Honest’ when they work hard and do introspection, and then get the nature and humanity state. DA XUE is another classical literature of Confucianism with the discussion of’Honesty’ . The Resilience Theory of LIAO inherits the senior’s ’Honesty’ and emphasizes the role of "Honesty" in the compound. Above all, it is the source of ZHOU Dunyi’s ’Honesty’.ZHOU Dunyi’s ’Honesty’ mainly includes ’Benevolence’, ’Righteousness’, ’Fair’,’Positive’, and ’Justice’. Among of the ’Benevolence’ and ’Righteousness’ follow the traditional meaning of Confucianism, but the ’Positive’ and ’Justice’ have the special meaning for ZHOU Dunyi. In the Theory of Tai chi’s Picture,’Wuji Grnerates Tai Chi’ can be explained in traditional meaning, but also can be expressed in ’Tai Chi-Honesty’. From the point of view of Cosmology, ’Tai Chi’ is the source of all things and dynamic and static performance state of oneness; from the point of view of Value Metaphysics, ’Tai Chi’ is ’Honesty’ and is the root of the person’s survival value and significance. Therefore, ’Tai Chi-Honesty’ is the unification with the Cosmology and Metaphysics. The Book of Tung concretely describes that how the ’Honesty’ help people to complete the things with their faith. The saints are the persons who have spirit of fair and sensible, thus they also can be unified with ’Honesty’. ZHOU Dunyi thinks that the main practices of ’Honesty’ are quietness of mind and desire-free of heart, Pragmatic and paying equal attention to learn. Chengyi and Chenghao inherit the ZHOU Dunyi’s ’Honesty’. On the Metaphysics, Chengyi and Chenghao think that the ’Honesty’ is the highest moral standards and social harmony. In ChengYi and Chenghao’s opinion, the ’Honesty’ is the way to realize the good social order. ZHU Xi inherits the opinions of ZHOU and two Cheng, and he analysis the ’Honesty’ in his idea. ZHU puts forward that ’Honesty’ must depend on bright and goodness. ’Honesty is the soul of cultivate one’s morality and Bright and Goodness are the soul of Honesty’ , at the same time, ZHU thinks that Bright and Goodness are investigation of things, and Honesty means not deceive and self-supervision’. LIU Zongzhou puts forward the theory of Honesty, and he thinks ZHOU Dunyi’s theory is a cautious and characteristic theory.Finally, it clarifies that ZHOU Dunyi’s ’Honesty’ has important significance for the construction of a harmonious socialist society.