The Construction of the Core Values ​​of Xun Zi's Philosophy

Philosophy and Culture 34 (12):21-40 (2007)
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"Core value" is the interface between traditional and modern bridges, is more characteristic of the modern; another modern element is the "rational thinking." Xunzi Zhe Thought a deep modernization of these two key characteristics, which concerned with modern management thinking ability of contracting knowledge and ability - "righteousness" and ability to practice the core values ​​- "Ceremony" is Xunzi Zhe Thought the main areas. "Justice" when and not if the independent thinking of the judge ability, and "gifts" behavior defined by the resulting specification-defined regime of, and this regime of the follow Lai Law Jurisprudence but to follow the external world, the rules legal - natural law. "Natural law", and refers to people's behavior and the criterion legal regulations with the outside world, which we call "natural-law." This is the Xunzi stressed that "not from the king from the Road" one is seeking to construct "Mastery of the genus, Mo is not from the service" of rational political ideal. However, concept Xunzi, "a world, financial things," , to achieve a unified, world domination of all things and use it, so that the whole world of people都get rich upbringing and adverse well educated ideal must be constructed in a " the meaning of change should, "" gifts of the body often and make changes, "the" gifts governance "core values. This describes how to move in today's human harmony, coexistence, coexistence, must self-study, self-control, self-discipline of the most important issue. The "core values" are not only the instruments to bridge the traditional and the modern but also the characteristics of modernization. The other essential element of modernization is "rational thinking." And Xun Zi's philosophy was profoundly characterized by these two properties of modernization, as the capacity to judge the rational thinking of modernization and the capacity to practice the core value were the major categories of Xun Zi's philosophy. Yi is the independent judgment of right and wrong, and li is the institutionalization of yi, while such institutionalization follows the rules of the outer world, natural law. Natural law, indicating also the cannons of human behaviors and the principles of the world, is what we call the "natural civil law," that is, the rational political ideal that Xun Zi tried to construct

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