Title: On Li Gou, the Expert Confucian Scholar of One Age
Abstract: Gou, together with Hu yuan, Qujiang Xiu, Fan Zhongyian and Wang Anshi etc. in early Song, were expert Confucian scholars of one age with wide knowledge. The prerequisite of an expert Confucian scholar wao to grasp the thought of Confucianiem deeply and use it thoroughly. The highest realm of an expert Confucian scholar was very wise and the doctrine of the mean. As an expert Confucian scholar of one age Gou was specially sensitive to practical problems. His political essays of Making Country Rich, Making Army Strong and Reassuring People etc. showed his progressive thought to reform social reality yilun was the basis of his thought and had the tendency of teleology. Conventum and Charge became dialectical harmmony by LiGou. But he paid more attention to Change and was against Convention, Lilun was the core of his thought and expounded the idea of a perfect social system and order His Li had both ontology′s category of value and harmonious category of function. So it had double meanings.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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