Why did the Yang Zhu doctrine in the Warring States period lose its status in later generations?

Stepping through the brilliant long sky of history, looking at the dappled streamers of light in the starlight, the wind and frost of a thousand years, how many heroes and legends have been frozen, the long line of heaven and earth that runs through ancient and modern times, connecting the initial power of life, bringing surprise to people, bringing people memories, the vast picture of history, is the spiritual heaven that never grows old!

Yang Zhu's doctrine was indeed unique and leading in the Warring States period, but in the later period, because Meng Ke and others rejected Yang Zhu's doctrine, later scholars also discouraged it. Coupled with the burning of books by Qin Shi Huang and the exclusive respect of Confucianism by the emperor of the Han Dynasty, the Yang Zhu doctrine lost its position in later generations.　

Yang Zhu was after Mozi put forward his own Mojia thought, because the constraints of Mojia thought on human morality exceeded the limits of people, so Yang Zhu put forward his own doctrine to refute Mozi's thought. Because the doctrine is close to Taoist thought, it is reluctantly classified into Taoist thought. The central idea of Yang Zhu's theory is "nobility", which emphasizes the importance of man himself. However, many people in later generations rejected it for the sake of exclusion, describing this "noble self" as a kind of "selfish" and "depraved" thought, which led to the decline of doctrine.

In the concept of life and death, the Yang Zhu school believes that when people are born, they are dead, and everyone is like this. Moreover, there is a difference between meritocracy, stupidity, and poverty in life, but after death, they will turn into a pile of white bones, and Wu Shun and Jie Lu are no different from ordinary people in this regard.

In addition, the most important point of Yang Zhu's theory is that you are noble. The most important thing in life is their own life, it is very difficult to be born, but it is very simple to die, people only have this short life, so they must be extremely precious and live optimistically. Everything must be based on the existence of man, do not let man's life be damaged, and there will be no chance when he dies. Moreover, Yang Zhu also refuted the morality of the Mojia School, believing that morality is an additional product of human nature, human nature is as clear as water, and when the soil is added, it becomes turbid, so it maintains people's own nature.

Yang Zhu thought

Regarding Yang Zhu's thought, it is possible to make some simple expositions from several aspects, because for various historical reasons, the Yang Zhu School has been misinterpreted and misinterpreted by later Generations of Confucian scholars, and there are extreme views, so a more objective description will be made here.　

The most central point of Yang Zhu's theory is to emphasize the importance of human subjectivity, which is reflected in "noble self". It is believed that human life is the most important, and as long as people have a short life, cherishing life is the most important. Everything must be valued by the existence of people, do not hurt others, others can not hurt themselves. Moreover, Yang Zhu wanted to put forward the full true guarantee, emphasizing that people should conform to nature and enjoy the things around them within the desires of their own bodies, without being too greedy and insatiable, and not being hurt by external objects. This is the main point of Yang Zhu's theory.

Politically, Yang Zhu's thought is the very famous phrase "no dime", which has been misunderstood by Confucian scholars into the meaning of miserliness and selfishness, but in fact, the original meaning is mainly not to harm their own interests for the interests of others, nor to harm the meaning of others for their own interests. In Yang Zhu's view, this is the great rule. Yang Zhu also believes that those who govern this society should be "virtuous", but also modest, and should "act virtuously and go to the heart of self-virtuous", which means that people behave virtuously but in their hearts they do not think they are virtuous.

In terms of morality, Yang Zhu refuted Mozi's statement, believing that morality is a custom and habit imposed on people, and that people are born kind and gentle, and only need to accumulate such various habits in life, and do not always use morality to restrain themselves.

Yang Zhu was too Song Dong

Yang Zhu is too Song Dong, which is a small story about Yang Zhu recorded in ancient books. This story is from "Han Feizi", which also contains a rich philosophy of life.

The story goes that Yang Zhu was on a trip away and passed by an inn in the east of the Song Kingdom. The owner of this shop has two concubines, one of which is long ugly and the other is long and beautiful. The status of this long and ugly concubine is higher than that of the beautiful concubine. Yang Zhu was curious and asked the shop owner what the reason was. The shopkeeper replied that the beautiful person thinks she is beautiful, but I don't think she is beautiful, and the ugly person thinks she is ugly, but I don't think she is ugly. Yang Zhu sensed the truth from this, and said to his students, if the behavior of virtue is accompanied by the removal of the thoughts in his heart that he thinks he is virtuous, where will he not be praised?

Leaving aside Yang Zhu's political thought, this sentence said by the boss alone is what many people need to learn today. Each of us who exists in this world is a subjective individual, and in the process of growing up, we develop the ability to appreciate and judge anything. However, this ability is different because of the different environments in which people grow up, so the level of judgment and appreciation is different, so there will be a steady stream of differences between people.

But in this society that respects everyone, any voice and any attitude has the right to speak out, and this right is not distinguished from right or wrong or high and low, but only respects the differences of each person. Just like the shop owner in this story, he does not need to agree with other people's views to judge which of his concubines is ugly and which is beautiful, and what we have to do is to respect the shop owner's own judgment, but we can also hold a different point of view from the boss.

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