"Does as He Likes but Never Oversteps the Rules"——On the Mergence of Study of Philosophical History and Philosophical Thought in Feng Youlan's Late Years

methodology Compiled History of Chinese Philosophy by Feng Youlan is characterized by the integration of the thought of Neo-Confucianism,Marxism and the history of Chinese philosophy.Feng Youlan differentiates materialism from idealism by his unique method of dealing with the relation between subjective and objective,thus he takes the thought that philosophy is the reflection of life into the history of philosophy and establishes the thought as the metatheory philosophy study.Besides he links the epistemology with the realm of life by adopting the concept of concrete universals. As a result,the history of Chinese philosophy is no longer evaluated as the problem of materialism or idealism perspective of epistemology,but as or mainly as the problem of value involving the existence and safety of the people.His study is close to the content of Chinese philosophy,and realizes the return from the transcendence over the neo-rational Confucianism.This return dissolves the problems the philosophy of mind on the base of the rational and he deals with it in the way he likes without overstepping the rules. By taking the theory of the realm of life as the metatheory,The Newly Compiled History of Chinese Philosophy becomes more valuable than The History of Chinese Philosophy(two volumes) compiled the 30s of the 20th century.From this point,it can be said that The Newly Compiled History of Chinese Philosophy Has dual significance of dissolving Marxism and summarizing the :Neo-rational Confucianism and the research the history of Chinese philosophy.