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Dipping the hole in the ink – the “Confucius’ Creation and Reformation” statement by Mo Zi and Kang Youwei
Author: Li Tingyu
Source: “Modern Philosophy” 2021 Issue 1
Abstract: Although Kang Youwei, who has accumulated rich in the academic world, most of the research and discussions are discussions about his historical meaning and belong to the historical field. In recent years, there have been more discussions on Kang Youwei’s thinking in the field of philosophy, but the focus is on Kang Youwei’s Confucianism and its political concerns. Few works focus on what kind of proof strategy Kang You adopted to support his Confucianism and whether his proof can be useful or systematic at a certain level. This article believes that Kang You adopted the strategy of “redirecting the learning of the sect” in the proof of the sect, and used the pre-Qin sect, especially Mozi, to support other Confucian theories. This proof strategy avoids the problems of beggar questions and circular evidence, and has a certain meaningful proof efficiency due to its interpretation.
Keywords: Mo Zi; Confucius; Kang Youwei; Reform through ancient times;
Author introduction: Li Ting-yu, a native of Taiwan, was taught by the Assistant Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Religion in Macau
1. Introduction
In the past few decades, Kang Youwei, who has suffered from the rich results in the academic community. Kang Youzhe took the initiative to support his transformation movement with his unique Confucianism. After the failure of the transformation, he still supported feelings and continued to promote and develop his Confucianism in political activities. Therefore, many research and discussions worked hard to highlight his Confucianism and let her only choose A. The political concerns behind it have not yet been discussed in depth about his proof or proof strategy. This is not an “omitted” in the academic world, but Kang Youwei’s writing style is indeed lacking in “a academic atmosphere”. The method of “living network” was already praised by all parties at that time. For example, Mo Mu criticized his Confucian theory tree standing on the essay of historical materials. Even Sheng Rongkang said that Liang Qichao, who was shaking the academic world, also criticized Kang for making decisions about whether he was determined or neglected certain textual evidence. These may make us think ahead of the times that Kang You’s value lies in political concerns and unique and innovative ideas, but his Confucianism lacks systematic evidence, and only creates a strange “Confucius” through conjunction. According to his initiative, Confucius, like Liu Xin he criticized, was a man who created books to make political affairs, or a leader and a saint of inventories.
The authors of course criticized Liang Qichao, Momo and others for criticizing Kang You for his flaws, and also criticized Kang You for his “Confucius” that he understood.It is difficult to accept from traditional mainstream insights, but this does not show that there is a reasonable level of efficiency and systemicity. On the one hand, although Confucius in “Theory” “reports without writing”, the mainstream view also believes that Confucianism is a set of ethics of self-cultivation and sainthood, this does not show that Confucius created classics to strengthen political affairs and abstract the master who was bound to be contrary to the true nature. Regarding the authority of “The Book of Songs”, some scholars may not criticize “The Book of Songs” as a pre-Qin work that truly records Confucius’ words and deeds. Even if we accept the authority of “Theory”, the comments of Confucius recorded in it may not necessarily be true in literal meaning [1]. On the other hand, the author once verbally proved in his writing that Confucianism has many seemingly ethical discussions, which may not be concerned about ethical issues themselves, but may be to support specific political initiatives and actions with the help of some existing ethical values [2]. Therefore, the Confucius, which Kang Youyu understands, may not be completely unrealistic in the eyes of the writer. Furthermore, from the perspective of reasoning, although Kang You’s statement on a discriminatory basis is flawed, this may not necessarily lead to his statements being reduced to the overall efficiency. The reason is: First, a useful evidence (valid arconsumer pipelinegument) may not be a sound evidence (sounconsumer one month’s priced argument), although Kang Youyou’s condition is sometimes through the “certification” of his processing, but this may not necessarily affect the overall efficiency of his argument; second, his unique “revolution of the subject” statement makes his theory stronger. If we have a problem of “certification” at a time, focus on his statement about the relationship between Zuzi (especially Mozi) and Confucius, we will be able to figure out a clear proof thinking and the proof has the efficiency of a certain meaning. Therefore, this article is divided into three departments. First, it explains why the pre-Qin Scriptures are, especially Mo Zi occupies a key position in Kang You’s argument; then briefly describes Kang You’s argument on how to use Mo Zi to construct his argument; finally, explores Kang You’s efficiency problem as the “Mo Zi Scriptures”.
2. The value of the priest in Kang You is a proof of the Confucian scholar
As we all know, Kang You is the more prominent Confucian scholar Zhang You: (1) The ancient text was created by Liu Xin, and the current text is the authentic Confucian classics written by Confucius [3]; (2) Confucius’ works are based on the ancient changes and said in a panic: “Do you want to drink some hot water? I’ll burn it.” The goal of the system; (3) Confucius was the saint of creation and the leader of Confucius [4]. These three points appeared in “New Study of Learning” and “Confucius Reform”. Although these initiatives are all about the essence of the Six Paths and Confucius, their arguments do not come from the Six Paths and Confucius, but rely on Kang You’s understanding of the pre-Qin Scriptures, especially his understanding of the book “Mozi”.And his understanding of the two pre-Qin Han and the two commentaries on Mozi. Kang Youxuan clearly handed over this proof thinking in the opening chapter of “A Study on the Reform of Confucius”, that is, he would temporarily open the book and Confucius and turn to the pre-Qin Scriptures: Confucius’s restructuring said that since the current learning has not been lost, the ancient style of learning has been confusing and suspicious. I will not talk to Confucius now, please give me some advice. Why don’t you change the system? …Now I will reveal the statement of the reform of the sect. When Zuzi’s restructuring and restructuring was Ming, Confucius, who was produced by the great saint, sat in the world and could not bear to lose his benefits, but was it the opposite? [5]
Kang Youxi’s argument for the strategy was to temporarily place books and Confucian texts, and instead treat this topic by the school of thought. The reason why he adopted this strategy was that the reason why this Confucianism was born was that it was because the people read a very different Confucius in the same book and Confucian texts, so how to continue the debate on how to describe these texts is insignificant, and they can only consider other texts, while other texts that need to be considered are naturally sub-texts. Kang Youxuan proposed a suitable and straightforward reason, that is, Confucius was also a “Zi”, and the reason why Confucius was a sage was because he was the leader of the sage. In this case, we only need to understand what Confucius is doing to understand what Confucius is doing. If Confucius had not been in the same career as other scholars, he would not have been the most outstanding software among scholars. For example, we would not think that a student is the most powerful student because his academic results are more excellent than the dishes cooked by chefs all over the world.
Based on this idea, Kang Youxuan believed that when the pre-Qin monks worked hard to reform in order to save the world, Confucius, as the leader of the monks, should be the most outstanding reformer among them. Therefore, although the “Confucius Reform Examination” is called “Confucius” reform exam, its content is the “Creative Education Reform Examination”. Its purpose is to highlight the justice of “Confucius is a creator, a reformer through ancient times, and a book author”. In Kang Youxin’s view, pre-Qin scholars are doing these things, and Mozi is especially the best example.
Mozi’s position in Kang You’s argument is particularly prominent in the book “Examination of Confucius’ Reform”: The book “Examination of Creative Education and Reform” and “Examination of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the Reform of the