An outline of the Modern New Confucian scholars' thought based on the Yi-ology

The representatives of the Modern New Confucianism laid great stress on Yi Zhuan, with the interpretation of which they have elucidated their philosophical ideas. XIONG Shi-li's Yi-ology takes the originality (symbolized and inspired by the 1~(st) hexagram of) Qian as the core of his ontological cosmology; MA Yi-fu's takes nature and as the center of his ontology by everyday practice of cultivation; FANG-DONG Mei's takes (the quality of) producing and reproducing as the center of his metaphysics; MOU Zong-san's takes attaining to the state of profound and miraculous transformations as the core of his moral metaphysics; TANG Jun-yi's takes spiritual acknowledgement as the core of his all-inclusive religion within which heaven and human participate into and produce each other both internally and externally. From modern philosophical concepts and issues, they gave priority to the explication of the cosmology, ontology, theory of life, theory of human nature, theory of the attainment of lofty life realm, axiology embraced in Zhouyi, and the relationship between them. At the same time, they confirmed the distinctive differences between Chinese and Western philosophy are exhibited as that the former reveals views of organic nature, of holistic harmoniousness, and the idea that values conceived in the natural universe and the factual world, the pursuit of perfect beauty and good, the relationship between the theory of life and the experience of immanent quality. As a result, they reestablished ontology and cosmology of Chinese philosophy and proved the significance of the communion between transcendence and immanence, and the unity of virtue between heaven and human.