The Significance of Mou Zongsan's Discussion on the Relationship between Morality and Wisdom in Pre-Qin Confucianism
The concept of"creative transformation and innovative development"clearly points out that it is an important task of the times to realize the modern transformation of traditional Chinese culture.Mou Zongsan's reconstruction of Confucianism can be regarded as a modern interpretation of tradition-al Chinese culture,which can be used for reference.His concern about the relationship between Confu-cianism and science is to reinterpret the morality-wisdom relationship of pre-Qin Confucianism in or-der to excavate the scientific sprouts that may be contained in traditional Confucianism and respond to the so-called lack of science in Chinese culture.At the same time,Mou Zongsan also realized the disad-vantages of modern science,and then put forward ways to deal with it.Therefore,he reinterpreted the relationship between morality and wisdom among Confucius,Mencius and Xunzi as Confucius'hidden concept of"the whole of morality and wisdom",the standing of Mencius'moral and spiritual subject,and the prominence of Xunzi's intellectual subject,and he tried to construct the relationship of"morali-ty and wisdom".Although there are some limitations in examining the reinterpretation of the relation-ship between morality and wisdom of Mou Zongsan's pre-Qin Confucianism and science,it is of positive significance to realize the modern transfer of traditional culture.
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