CONFUCIAN RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY WITH SYNCRETISM OF HEAVEN AND HUMAN, AND WORLD IN NATURE
MA Tian-xiang
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MA Tian-xiang
Abstract
Confucian religious philosophy carried on thought of old sages of Xia,Shang and Zhou dynasty and developed into Li Xue(new Confucianism) after Song dynasty. Its both power and moral demand of Heaven, and ultimate concern for the gold time of the remote past, both prove rationalization of royal power by Heaven will and stress the identity of human nature and heaven nature, so Tian(heaven), Zu(ancestry),Sheng(sage) are identical, Xing(nature),Ming(fate), Dao are identical, that outward-transcendence tend to inward-transcendence. Its Heaven will that going after the gold time 0f remote past. Nature is Dao, is Li, is Xin. Xin is nature. Finally world, everything is in and coming from Xin, namely nature. On the basis of the syncretism of Heaven and human nature Confucian religious philosophy make self-innovation step by step, and become systematic and precise. It was Confucian religious philosophy that made the thinking model of Chinese traditional culture, and its rationalization of ultimate pursue was proved too. These are Confucian religious philosophy, also are Chinese religious philosophys origin to carry on past and break new ground.
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Confucian religious philosophy carried on thought of old sages of Xia,Shang and Zhou dynasty and developed into Li Xue(new Confucianism) after Song dynasty. Its both power and moral demand of Heaven, and ultimate concern for the gold time of the remote past, both prove rationalization of royal power by Heaven will and stress the identity of human nature and heaven nature, so Tian(heaven), Zu(ancestry),Sheng(sage) are identical, Xing(nature),Ming(fate), Dao are identical, that outward-transcendence tend to inward-transcendence. Its Heaven will that going after the gold time 0f remote past. Nature is Dao, is Li, is Xin. Xin is nature. Finally world, everything is in and coming from Xin, namely nature. On the basis of the syncretism of Heaven and human nature Confucian religious philosophy make self-innovation step by step, and become systematic and precise. It was Confucian religious philosophy that made the thinking model of Chinese traditional culture, and its rationalization of ultimate pursue was proved too. These are Confucian religious philosophy, also are Chinese religious philosophys origin to carry on past and break new ground.
Key concepts: Heaven, Philosophy, Chinese philosophy, Transcendence (philosophy), Syncretism (linguistics), Rationalization (economics), Tian, Philosophy of religion