The First Person To Put Forward The Equality Between Men And Women

Yu Zhengxie's ethics on women is a significant manifest of Chinese traditional philosophy's turning to modernity.The Confucianism mainly involves ethical issues,and the first breakthrough in the female ethics is Yu Zhengxie,who advocates "the couple are equa,calls attention to women and reconstructs the female ethics.This thesis first describes the background of Yu Zhengxie's ethics on women.Yu Zhengxie's ethics on women is the product of the combination of tradition and modern ideas.First,his proposition of the female ethics is based on his opposition to the traditional philosophy of "the superiority of men over women".To study Yu's ethics on women,it is necessary to review the development of traditional ethics on women.Secondly,Yu Zhengxie was born in the transitional period from Ming to Qing Dynasty.Therefore,the birth of Yu's ethics on women had a unique background.Finally,as a heretic in the history,his women thoughts are influenced by the non-mainstream consciousness in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.The second chapter tries to seek the legitimacy of the equality between men and women from Heavenly Way.The orthodox ethics on women associates the role of women with the theory of Yang and Yin and thus concludes that women are born to be inferior.Yu Zhengxie breaks the gender inequality,puts forward gender equality,and affirms the gender equality from Heavenly Way(Tian Dao).Secondly,Yu Zhengxie pour for women rehabilitated.The third chapter discusses the rights of women from the humanitarianism Orthodox women ethics strengthens women's submission to men through "the rules of compliance".Yu Zhengxie was inspired by multiple factors,which extended the idea of equality to the relationship between men and women,and focused on women's rights.What is worth noticing is that Yu Zhengxie's female ethics shows special concerns with women's awareness of subjectivity.He focused on women's unique charm,and emphasized on women's physical and mental subjectivity,and their subjectivity of the rights and obligations.The fourth chapter tries to demonstrate the rationality of women's sexual desire using the theory of Rational Desire?Neo-Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties emphasizes the idea of "uphold justice,annihilate desire",and the concept of abstinence.In that background,the society requires people to refrain from human desires and forces women to observe etiquette.Based on his medical knowledge,Yu spreads the common sense of sexology and affirmed the rationality of female desire.The fifth chapter focuses on the methods used by Yu in the reconstruction of ethics on women.Yu mainly lived in the Qian Dao years when Sinology began to turn from the pursuit for truth to the pursuit for pragmatism.Affected by this transition,Yu began to pay attention to entrapment of women.As the third generation disciple of Dai zhen,his female ethics thought is permeated with Dai zhen's spirit of seeking truth from facts and rational criticism.