The Value Of Fang Dongmei's "life Philosophy"

Fang Dongmei adheres to the philosophy of value-oriented. He observed Bergson's life ontology and Whitehead's the body thinking, and combined them with Chinese value rationality of "function of unceasing generation of the universe" of the Book of Changes. He created a Chinese and Western combined, distinctive system of "the philosophy of life". Fang Dongmei embodied his distinctive angle of value in the process of discussions on Chinese and Western culture, discrimination of science and philosophy, combination for general characteristic of Chinese philosophy, philosophy thinking for judgment of cultural level and the realm of life. His "philosophy of life" was ontology and value theory. He advocated organism, which was contemporary inheritance and innovative development of financing way of thinking for value to traditional Chinese philosophy.Fang Dongmei evaluated Europeans, Greeks, Indians and Chinese opinion on the issue of "existence and value" on the basis of profound criticism of new Western philosophy of value. He appreciated and advocated the attitude of both value and existence of traditional Chinese philosophy. Fang Dongmei appreciated Oriental philosophy treating the material universe as a starting point, base and foundation of human life, especially for the value orientation of the material universe of schools of Chinese philosophy.Fang Dongmei choosed to study philosophy by humanism facing people's value position undergoes multi-strike since modern times. He rised to remold people's value of confidence by "high-psychology". Fang Dongmei's position of the essence of value of system of "philosophy of life" fit in the opinion of "Value Lies in Human Selfhood". Fang Dongmei' the ideal personality undergone a process from reforming Nietzsche' ideal of "superman" to "perfect and perfectied man" or "Homo nobilis", and formed an ideal personality of trinity, also explained the layers of promotion of human life spirit by well-designed "the correlative structure of men and the world". Fang Dongmei presented a realizing route of value of life of "double-back trend", also stressed "process of self-realization" of "humanization". His ideal politics on the basis of criticizing of criticism and dissatisfaction of real politics, and he advocated that it should not lose the faith of Chinese philosophy in political ideal, and he also praised the open rule of virtue of Confucianism and emphasizes that statesman shall improve philosophical quality.Fang Dongmei' thought has unique contribution to new modern Confucianism, which embodies in comparison of cultural spirit from the view angle of China and foreign countries. He devoted the cultural comparison of China and foreign countries in order to show the value and prospect of Chinese culture especially Confucian culture. Fang Dongmei's system of "philosophy of life" can be regarded as a philosophy of value essentially. Life itself is the source of value and the destination of value. Constant improvement of human life spirit is the process of realization of the value. Fang Dongmei devoted all his life to explore an extensive and consonant system of philosophy, and he made many contributions to the invention. However, he fails to resolve the issue of binary separation of the experience and transcendent same as other new modern Confucians. His philosophy is full of feature of rational speculation in the study but lack of character of practicality.To study Fang Dongmei's thought of value of "philosophy of life" is favorable to open and deepen the study of ideological trend of new modern Confucianism and the rational continuation and prospective development of traditional Chinese philosophy, for providing ongoing development and modern transformation of Chinese philosophy with theoretical experience and enlightenment.