Thome H. Fang divided Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism into "realistic" "idealistic," and "naturalistic" schools and clarified the reason for the differences across the three schools. Song-Ming...Thome H. Fang divided Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism into "realistic" "idealistic," and "naturalistic" schools and clarified the reason for the differences across the three schools. Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism not only inherits the classical Confucianism reformulated by Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi but also adds a Buddhist and Daoist flavor to Confucianism. Fang seriously criticized Neo-Confucians for their obstinacy on moral reason and daotong (the orthodox Confucian way), particularly their parochial and narrow- minded privileging of daotong. However, he also positioned Neo-Confucianism as one of the four intellectual pillars of Chinese philosophy and highly praised its great contributions to Chinese metaphysics. Fang appreciated Neo-Confucians' tolerance toward Daoist and Buddhist thought and explored Neo-Confucian philosophy seperately and independently from early Confucianism.展开更多
文摘Thome H. Fang divided Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism into "realistic" "idealistic," and "naturalistic" schools and clarified the reason for the differences across the three schools. Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism not only inherits the classical Confucianism reformulated by Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi but also adds a Buddhist and Daoist flavor to Confucianism. Fang seriously criticized Neo-Confucians for their obstinacy on moral reason and daotong (the orthodox Confucian way), particularly their parochial and narrow- minded privileging of daotong. However, he also positioned Neo-Confucianism as one of the four intellectual pillars of Chinese philosophy and highly praised its great contributions to Chinese metaphysics. Fang appreciated Neo-Confucians' tolerance toward Daoist and Buddhist thought and explored Neo-Confucian philosophy seperately and independently from early Confucianism.
