Abstract:Xiong Shili's Insights of Reading Classics integrates Chinese and western thought, unifies the academic of the Han and Song Dynasties, inherits the traditional Confucian classics, takes Confucian classics as the academic basis, returns to the original and opens up the new, reconstructs Confucian orthodoxy, academic orthodoxy and governance orthodoxy, constructs the new Confucian philosophy system, directly affects the second generation of new Confucians such as Tang Junyi, Mou Zongsan and Xu Fuguan, and promotes the contemporary new Confucianism to the peak. In the aspect of Confucian orthodoxy, he took the Six Classics as the origin, the Four Books and the Classics of Filial Piety as the derivation, and focused on elucidating the constant way of classics to rebuild the Confucian orthodoxy. In the aspect of academic orthodoxy, he thought that the four subjects of theory, economy, textual research and rhetoric could be covered by the Six Classics , with the Six Classics as the main subject and all classes of authors, Taoist, Buddhism and Western learning as the side. In the aspect of governance orthodoxy, he elaborated on the ideas of governing the country by the Six Classics : benevolence as the ontologies,investigating things for application,sincerity,forgiveness,equalizationa,and justice as the principle , flexibility to change at any time, promoting people's livelihood and application based on morality, govern the people by regulations and keep order among them by chastisements to become a comity society, which starts with governing people by man, next with all things in their proper places, and ends with great harmony. In the realm of lif, he proposed that scholars should be determined and hope to be a saint from the bottom to the top. |