A study on Tang Zhen’s thoughts of family ethics
Abstract
Tang Zhen(1630——1704)is an important thinker of democracy between late Ming and early Qing. A lot of his thoughts reflected exactly the process of disintegration of Chinese traditional society and coinstantaneous germination of new ideas of citizen in the period of sprout capitalism.In chinese traditional society,the family seized the core position of individual social life and absolutely the family ethics played an important role in family system. Having inherited the confucian family ethics in The Earlier Qin Dynasty,Tang Zhen considered filial piety and fraternal duty were the basical principles in the family ethics and affirmed according the era trait between late Ming and early Qing that men and women were equal.The inheritance and novelty in Tang Zhen’s thoughts are not only his personal academical achievement but also the wealth in the history of chinese thinking.