On The Comparison Of The Conception Of Intuition Between Liang Shuming And Kant

Liang Shuming is the pioneer of Chinese new Confucianism after the New Cultural Movement,and has important status and influence in the history of modern Chinese thought and culture.With the aim of reviving Confucianism,he criticized the anti-traditionalist road of Westernization and tried to carry forward the modern spiritual value of traditional Confucianism through the aid of "learning from Western scholars".The research path adopted by him with Chinese and Western communication directly affected the later Neo-Confucianism movement.Liang Shuming's interpretation of Confucianism's "benevolence" by the concept of "intuition" of western philosophy opens up a new way of modern Neo-Confucianism to integrate Chinese and Western philosophy.This paper attempts to compare Liang Shuming and Kant 's intuitions from the perspective of ethics,and further to explore the accommodation of Confucianism and Kant' s philosophy in ethics.Coincidentally,intuitive concept also plays a very important role in Kantian philosophy.Kant argues that our human beings,as limited rational beings,have the ability to make perceptual intuition and innate intuition,but they cannot have reason and intuition,and intellectual intuition is a magical power that only God has.But this paper attempts to point out that in Kant's ethics,moral intuition constitutes a prerequisite potentially to be used by default and is indispensable.This paper is divided into three parts as follows:First of all,it briefly discusses the theoretical origins of Liang Shuming's intuitive view,and then expounds basic connotations of intuition from three aspects of ontology,epistemology and moral feelings.It shows that Liang Shuming's intuitive theory is to abandon the intellectual thinking of western philosophy and the traditional sense of the concept of truth,and to return to the settlement of spiritual home of the metaphysical realm.Secondly,it makes a retrospective study of the prerequisites of Kant's ethics,and tries to clarify the rational principle of "irrationalism",which is slightly mysterious,behind Kant's rationalist moral philosophy.In Kant,if there is no innate intuition or compassion of "good" or "conscience",a series of core principles of moral philosophy,such as moral law,categorical imperative and autonomy.In the end,we compare the similarities and differences between Liang Shuming and Kant's intuitions,and point out that the similarities between the two lie in that they all constitute the necessary prerequisite for their own ethics and become the basicway to confront reason or to add reason.Their differences are included in the relationship between intuition and reason,intuition and ontology,intuition and philosophical system.