A Study Of “New Philosophy Of Mind” By He Lin

As one of the important representatives of the modern Neo-Confucianism,He Lin was actively building the “New Philosophy of Mind” with national characteristics,while striving to seek the road to national rejuvenation.He Lin believed that his philosophy has deep ideological origins.His “New Philosophy of Mind” is not only an achievement obtained based on criticism,inheritance,absorption and development of Neo-Confucianism and “Philosophy of Mind” of Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Shouren,but also a product appeared under the influence of Spinoza,Kant,Fichte,Schelling,Hegel,and the new Hegelian school.Meanwhile,He Lin commented on thoughts of Liang Shuming,Xiong Shili,and Feng Youlan,refined their thoughts and incorporated their thoughts into the “New Philosophy of Mind”,so that the“New Philosophy of Mind” has become an indispensable part of the modern Neo-Confucianism.He Lin built its mind ontology from 4 aspects: “mind is the ideal”,the mind-matter relationship,mind-nature relationship and idealism.He Lin started from the relationship between intuition and rationality,to provide methodological support for “New Philosophy of Mind”;he adopted idealism to reinterpret the essence of “unity of moral knowledge and practice”;he inherited and extended the philosophy of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty;he discussed his philosophy of life based on the purpose of life,ideals of life,attitudes towards life,and education in life.While actively constructing the system of “New Philosophy of Mind”,He Lin also launched the logical development of the “New Philosophy of Mind”.He advocated the new development of Confucianism,put forward the idea of “saving the nation by learning”,developed new moral concepts,and made a lot of efforts for the revival of the Chinese nation.The theoretical feature of “New Philosophy of Mind” is that it adopts a sincere attitude to balance the Chinese and Western philosophy,takes “Philosophy of Mind” as the root,enriches the content and significance of “Mind”,tries to ease the internal conflict between “Philosophy of Mind” and“Confucianism”,encourages the development of non-Confucian schools,positively polishes Confucianism,and shows a calm,rational and fair cultural mentality.“New Philosophy of Mind” is He Lin's understanding,refining and summary of the times at that time.He stood on the shoulders of his predecessors to understand and think about the trend of the modernization and globalization of Chinesephilosophy.Based on a general survey on the process of building and developing “New Philosophy of Mind”,this philosophy has far-reaching research value for the modernized development of contemporary China.