The Study Of Fang Dongmei's Cosmology

The twentieth century was a time of turbulence. Just like most scholars, Fang Dongmei voluntarily shouldered the responsibility of resolving the crisis of the20 th century. Fang believed that the crisis was not external issues such as politics and military, but stem from internal mental issues of human kind. Western thoughts of subject-object dichotomy separated universe value world from natural world. The universe which lost the meaning of value was no longer the foundation of religion and philosophy. As a result, the spirits of philosophy withered away, and the valuable meaning of human could not achieve. Finally, the exist of human kind would be in danger. Through the discussion about the relationship among universe, individual and life, Fang Dongmei attempted to draw a grand and harmonious blueprint of universe and life, then succeeded in resolving the crisis of the times and issue of human existence.Through the universe view of weighing matter and thruth, Fang Dongmei summarizes and reflects on the relation between science and philosophy which remains controversy in modern Chinese and western thoughts. He thinks that modern western thoughts only pay attention to the development of science and technology and lead people to attach importance to material interest while ignoring the people's moral value. That leads to formless vacuity on spirits, and there is a crisis of universal value decay in the universe of knowledge. Between science and philosophy, Fang Dongmei adopted the bisection method which means allows value field to cover knowledge field. He tried to get the scientific plane into the orbit of the universe of philosophy, and used philosophical approach to emphasize the ascension of spiritual value to highlight human's pivotal position in universe.In order to further highlight the important position of human in universe, Fang Dongmei reconstructed life and spirits. Through the explain and development of philosophy of ovganism by Whitehead in western world, production and reproduction by China's traditional philosophy from Book of changes, as well as no obstacle of harmony in the Hua-yen school, Fang's thoughts display that human and universe are integral. The key point of Fang's philosophy is that he puts life as the center, and regards he whole world as an organins whole including nature, heaven, earth and human life in it. Chinese ancient scholars believed the greatness of human nature because people's sharing in the disposition and the spirit of universal life, they put the individual life in the center, directly penetrated through the creativity in the universe and participated in the process of its evolution.With the Life ontology Greativity, Fang Dongmei explains the harmonious state between universe and individual during the process of life progress, and sets up an ideal blueprint of universe and life. Fang Aims to discuss unique personality exaltation and the double realm of life on the foundation of Two Layers with Six Types of situation. Fang thinks that universe not only shows the upward realm of life and personality, but also shows the downward realm of universe and life spirits when the upward realm reaches the top of universe. Fang Dongmei put the thoughts of harmonious nature and humanity as the essences of its world view, and regards the thoughts as the remedy to the problem of alienation in the western universe view and the ultimate goal of achieving ideal personality.Overall, Fang Dongmei's cosmology thoughts has run throughout his whole ideological system.The purpose of his philosophical isto arrange the position of life in the universe and respond to the significance of universe to people. Fang Dongmei has a unique universe thoughts. The essay summarizes Fang's universe thoughts of eternal beauty from three aspects including the life of the universe, the neutralizing life theory and saints act of value. The author believes that universe is not only the occasion of mechanical and physical activity, but also a field with constant creation. Meanwhile, the author thinks that universe is playing endless function in a limited system. Finally, the author regards the universe as a place of artistic conception and morality.