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Xunzi’s integration and promotion of the “reason” in the pre-Qin period – the relationship between “reason” and “Tao” and “Tao” is the middle ground

Author: Yao Haibing (Qingshima Urban Academy) 

Source: Author Author Authorization by Confucian Network, published by “Social Science Dynamics” No. 2, 2023

Abstract: Later generations discuss “reason”, profound and wonderful, and take rationality as respect. In the pre-Qin period, the discussion of “reason” was profound and purified, and Xunzi was the most important. Xunzi studied the “reason” in the academic world, and followed the “reason” of Mencius and Xunzi in a way that both conceptual theory and practices. In summary, Xunzi had a great meaning of “reason” href=”https://sites.google.com/view/sugardaddy-coding”>博官网 3:1. View “Tao” and “reason”. Xunzi’s “Tao” is mostly human nature, and “reason” is the content of “Tao”. “Tao” means “big truth”. ”; 2. From the perspective of the meaning of the word “reason”, Xunzi’s “reason” also includes the “reason” of principle and the “reason” of management, and constitutes the source of the word “management”. Third, from the relationship between “devotion” and “reason”, Xunzi’s “reason” has carried out theoretical innovation in the three dimensions of “devotion” and “reason”, which is based on the three dimensions of “devotion” and “reason”, which is based on the three dimensions of “devotion” and “reason”, which is based on the three dimensions of “devotion” and “reason”, which is based on the source of the word “devotion” and “reason”. Xunzi’s principles are extensive and detailed, which can be regarded as the complete collection of pre-Qin theory. Xunzi’s theory is out of its own nature and out of its own. In the relationship between “reason” and “Tao” and “Tao”, it has the moral character of focusing on logical analysis and theoretical promotion. With this in mind, Xunzi completed the integration, correction and promotion of the “reasons” of the pre-Qin period.

 

Keywords: Xunzi; theory; Tao; gift; integration; promotion

 

Introduction

 

The word “sensuality” today is translated from a foreign language. Such as reason in English and la raison in French. This word in French comes from the Latin Ratio, and its word is reor, which means calculation, thinking, recommendation, etc., and it also leads to calculation, thinking, argumentation, origin, wisdom, and perceptual meaning①. “Sensibility” is an external word, and if there is a corresponding relationship in Chinese lyrics, the translation can be integrated without any complexity. The predecessors were very simple and liked to use the word “中”, but the word “生” was just a good match with the reason in foreign languages, so they translated it with “sensibility”, which was wonderfully integrated.

 

The word “reason” is shared by both the elegant and the masses, and is a common saying used in daily life, and philosophical thinking is also often discussed. The study of the Song and Ming dynasties was called theory, which was also called Taoism, nature and reason or moral principles. Therefore, “Ru” was created by popular words and became a masterpiece of academic studies in the Song and Ming dynasties. It can be seen that “reason” is both an academic name and a name that can be known to people in daily life. Since the late Qing Dynasty, Western learning has been learned, and some people introduced the term “national studies” from japan (Japan) to the goal of retaining Chinese civilization, and there are national schools. National studies can be classified as examination, theory, worldly studies and chapterslearn. The study of theory then turned away from the pure theory jacket, and one of the national classifications had a meaning similar to philosophy. If we talk about it from the perspective of academic meaning, the learning of theory is a large number of modern Chinese studies.

 

The study of theory with philosophical meanings began in the pre-Qin period and was greatly moved by the Song and Ming dynasties. The “reason” mentioned by Cheng and Zhu Zhicai originated from Mencius. King Shu Xinxue said that his “heart” also originated from Mencius. Of course, Mencius once discussed “reason”, “heart”, “nature”, etc., but it was far from the wonderful things that scholars of the Song and Ming dynasties said. If we review and sort out the “reason” of pre-Qin theory, we can also get the original meaning of “reason”, and we can also get the differences in “reason” and the profound and pure reform of pre-Qin theory. When discussing emotions and discussing, the pre-Qin scholars’ discussion of “reason” was not pure, but profound and purified, especially Xunzi.

 

1. A brief summary of Xunzi’s discussion on “reason” in academic circles

 

The results of the discussion on the word “reason” in Chinese philosophy are not complete, especially in ancient times, and the results are not good. The more famous results in Chinese thinking in history are the “Beixi Yi” of Chen Chun of the Southern Song Dynasty, Dai Zhen of the Qing Dynasty, and the “Mencius Yi Shu Ji” and Liu Ming Li Pei of the “Northology Yi Tongji”. These three works discuss the special topic of the word “Li”. The three books can be regarded as representative works of rational development and training. Among them, “Beixi Characters” lists the word “Li” and has not written much, and it has actually made great achievements. “Mencius’s Characters and Illusions” lists the fifteen articles of “reason”, and analyzes the articles in a detailed manner, and uses deep force. Starting from the “Real and Literature of the Characters of the Nature”, it lists ten eyes of “reason”, “nature, emotion, will, will, desire”, “benevolence, kindness, forgiveness”, “destiny”, “heart, thought, virtue”, “righteousness”, “respect, respect”, “talent”, “taste”, and “static”, and analyzes them very carefully. Although the three books are not a study of Xunzi’s “reason”, they provide rich information and unhelpful borrowing for the purpose of conducting this study.

 

From the Chinese academic community on the “theory” discussion of Xunzi, there are no special discussions, but only exist in the special writings or annotations of other students, mostly for the purpose of propaganda. Among the more standardized ones, if we follow the preface of the book time, there are four people, Tang Junyi, Li Fengsheng, Sato Yizhi and Huo Shengyu. The four-person Xunzi discussion on “theory” can be divided into two categories: theory development and training.

 

(I) Developed research on the theory of theory

 

Tang Junyi’s book “Original Chinese Philosophy·Onliness of Chinese Philosophy”, discusses the ten major concepts of “reason”, “heart”, “name”, “definition”, “word and silence”, “definition and silence”, “results in knowledge and study”, “Tao”, “Taiyang”, and “life” of Chinese Philosophy in 18 chapters, and conducts a developmental research on the origin of the origin and the origin of theory. The original “reason” is the main research content, and it is listed as the first two chapters, occupying a considerable length of the whole book. There are eighteen chapters in the whole book. From the perspective of the chapters and chapters, there is the first chapter “In principle: the six meanings of “reason” and the principles of name”, and the second chapter “In principle: emptiness, nature, and factual principles”, which accounts for one-ninth of the whole book. Judging from the length and weight, it accounts for about one of the most important things in the whole book. In the preface of this book, “The first two chapters are the principles, because philosophy is used to understand the principles, and there are inherent types of principles in Chinese philosophy.This article is divided into six key points: physics, namely, or mysterious principles, emptiness principles, nature principles, literature principles, and factual principles. ”③ ​​From the perspective of the main model of Chinese philosophy, the author must have discussed Xunzi, who had outstanding views on “reason” by pre-Qin scholars. Teacher Tang’s teacher sorted out and developed “reason” and was a comparative shaping for Chinese philosophy that did not pay much attention to analysis. It has a major academic meaning for the model of building Chinese philosophy. Because Teacher Tang’s teacher went from the perspective of Chinese philosophy history to the original “reason”, there is no way to discuss Xunzi’s “reason”.

 

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