Feng You Lan's Historical Materialism And Its Application In Chinese Philosophy

Feng Youlan has a very high position in the Chinese philosophy field,"three histories explain ancient and modern,six books period Zhenyuan" is a highly summary of Feng Youlan's academic achievements,Feng Youlan's contribution to Chinese philosophy and the history of Chinese philosophy is a hot topic in the academic field.The thought of historical materialism can be said to run through Feng Youlan's whole life,so it's very meaningful to study Feng Youlan's historical materialism,but the academic research on this area is relatively small.Based on Feng Youlan's historical materialism and its application in the study of the history of Chinese philosophy,this paper is divided into the following parts:The first part mainly expounds the background of the formation of Feng Youlan's historical materialism and the change of Feng Youlan's attitude towards it.Feng Youlan was in the stage of learning historical materialism,and his attitude towards it was a passive acceptance process.After returning to Europe,Feng Youlan changed from a passive learning and acceptance process to an active learning and acceptance of historical materialism,and delivered a speech on the philosophy of Qin and Han history.After the founding of the people's Republic of China,Feng Youlan used historical materialism His thought rewrites the history of Chinese philosophy,which shows that Feng Youlan has completely accepted the research method of historical materialism.The second part: on the content of Feng Youlan's historical materialism.In fact,Feng Youlan's historical materialism thought can be summarized as follows:(1)history is changing;(2)historical evolution is not spiritual potential;(3)the systemexpressed in history is a set;(4)history is good;(5)historical evolution is cyclical or progressive.In fact,this is the historical materialism that Feng Youlan explained in the philosophy of Qin and Han history.At the same time,the theory of "new five virtues and three generations" is Feng Youlan's integration of historical materialism and Confucianism.In particular,the progress of the theory of the third world,compared with the theory of the five virtues and the theory of the three unification,lies in that the theory of the third world holds that the development of history is progressive,and history is always moving forward.Human society has evolved from the original society,step by step,to the feudal society,to the capitalist society and socialist society,to the Communist society in the future,just in line with the history of the theory of the third world It is consistent with the progress of development,and human beings will be able to realize the Communist society,which is similar to the Marxist historical materialism.The third part: Feng Youlan studies the evolution of social history with the thought of historical materialism.From the initial slave society to the Communist society,the general trend of human history development is advancing and rising.At the same time,Feng Youlan puts forward the theory of cultural types.He thinks that under different economic bases,social cultural types are necessarily different,which is the only way Feng Youlan uses The economic basis of the concept of material history determines the principle of superstructure;then the historical materialism is used to study the development of the history of Chinese philosophy.Feng Youlan acknowledges the situation of the social era and the influence of economy on culture and philosophy.In fact,Mr.Feng Youlan points out that it is absolutely impossible to study the philosophical thinking of an era without the social background of that era.The last part of the article makes a general evaluation of Feng Youlan's historical materialism thought.There are many ways to study the history of Chinese philosophy.Mr.Feng Youlan's research based on the historical materialism thought is an innovative research method,which is also what the predecessors did not have.It is a very important content of the study of Marxist Sinicization.