英文摘要
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Exploring the origin of Confucianism was an important intellectual issue in twentieth century China, which reflected a major intellectual transformation from traditional to modern ages, as well as debates between ancient and modern cultures, both in China and in the West. Among others, Feng Youlan 馮友蘭 (1895-1990) explored the origin of Confucianism with the method of the intellectual history. First, historically, he emphasized that Confucianism as a school of thought was founded by Confucius, thereby "cutting off the masses". Second, from the practical dimension, he argued for modern values of Confucianism and devoted himself to elucidating characteristics of Confucianism and of Chinese philosophy. Third, for the future, he rebuilt the new "lineage of the Way" (daotong 道統) with Confucianism as the main body, and developed his "new philosophy of principle" (xin lixue 新理學) so as to erect the subjectivity of Chinese philosophy. At the same time, Feng Youlan took in his "lineage of the Way" Confucianism, Taoism, the School of Names (mingjia 名家), Neo-Taoism (xuanxue 玄學), Chan Buddhism, and Neo Confucianism, which reveals interactions between Confucian classics and non-Confucian scholarship in Chinese intellectual history, and reflects the openness in his view of lineage of the Way.
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