Reconstruction of Confucian Orthodoxy and Revival of Confucianism---The Historical Background and Ideological Origins of Political Philosophy in the Theory of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi
Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi’s political philosophy has profound historical background and rich thought origin. Historical background is that since Tang Dynasty after the aristocrats fading with the emerging bureaucratic system formed, and the regime of North Song Dynasty’s weakness facing exotic invasion was forced to show the improvement of ethnic and national consciousness. Thought origin is that before the Song Dynasty, cultural trend of thought on the theory of influence, mainly since Wei Jin metaphysics and Buddhism on Confucian impact and challenge. Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, in the process construction of a new philosophical system, not only criticized and absorbed the Buddhist and Taoist philosophy and consciously to develop the original Confucian doctrine, which makes their political philosophy occupies important position in the process of Confucian orthodoxy reconstruction and Confucian rejuvenation in the Song Dynasty.
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