On the Process of Mou Zongsan's Understanding of Zhu Xi
Mou Zongsan's unique view of Zhu Xi is not achieved overnight but has a long development process.In fact,in his early years,Mou Zongsan was generous in his praise of Zhu Xi,comparing him to Kant and believing that Zhu Zi discovered Li,taught people to be sages to explore Li,established the foundation of morality,and turned morality into philosophy.In the 1940s and 1950s,Mou Zongsan made a more in-depth exploration of Lu and Wang's theory of mind.He re-determined Zhu Xi's thoughts on the relationship between mind and Li and concluded that Zhu Xi's work was only external work that had no essential relationship with moral practice.In the 1960s,Mou Zongsan reinterpreted the traditional Chinese philosophy from the beginning and determined the relationship between mind and human nature.Before the publication of Xin Ti and Xing Ti,he defined Zhu Xi's theory as a form of cognitive stillness falling into the second sense of heteronomous morality,which was different from the orthodox form of creation and self-discipline morality of Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties.
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