An Inquiry on Zhou Lien-xi's Understanding of "The Doctrine of the Mean" and Yi Zhuan-the Idea of "Genuineness"

Philosophy and Culture 36 (11):59-75 (2009)
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This paper is intended to weeks Lian "honesty" as the core concept and explore its for , "easy pass" idea of intermediation. "Heaven-endowed nature, reckless of that Road, convent of that religion", the Confucian Ke Deer do not smell of "sex" and "Heaven" problems to point out, on "honesty" made ​​the lives of Heaven phase through, it made ​​humanity Heaven, written for the "sincere person, heaven; sincerity of who should live."'s theory; "Yi" in the cosmology and the theory of Heaven on a brilliant, "one that yin and yang Road "made Heaven, while" following the good by nature "concept of life; on the Confucian" Heaven, "" life "of the theory of words, both the theory of reality as a table, as in Neo-Confucianism during the life of the school's home Heaven the main basis. This paper on the "sincerity" of the meaning of words and concepts described in the development of content; secondly discussion and "Yi" Heaven on the substance of life; then from Lian's "Heaven" theory theory "honesty" as the source of life, and its "cultivation theory" on the "honesty" as the realm of work and to explain on the Lian "sincere person, of the saints" "holy, just carry on sincerity" of the theory, and its successors and factoring out the , "easy pass" idea. This article is meant to revolve around Zhou Lien-xi's idea of ​​"genuineness" and inquire his understanding about the thought of Yi Zhuan, "The Doctrine of the Mean". "The Doctrine of the Mean" points out the questions of "nature" and the "heavenly way" and address the correspondence between the heavenly way and human nature by means of "genuineness." Yi Zhuan makes some brilliant statement about the cosmos view and the heavenly way. These two statements, complementary to one another, became the foundation of Neo-Confucians' doctrine of the heavenly way and human nature. This paper proceeds along the evolution of the literal meaning and immanence of "genuineness," then Zhou's theory of "genuineness," and finally the thought in Yi Zhuan, "The Doctrine of the Mean "as he inherited and understood

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