Xie Jishi’s Historical Morality Conception of History
——“Historical Criticism”Give First Place to 35
Abstract
Conception of history is people ’s view of history, but morality conception of history is one kind of method of people treating history with morality and ethics standard during the past height. Xie Jishi is a historical figure of Guangxi ,who lived in Kang Qian period(1662 to 1795’s) , the article bases on Xie’s “Historical Criticism” and points that under family education , humanistic spirit of Quanzhou ,autologous experience , life ideals etc.He formed a Confucian morality conception of history at the core of humane, justice, loyalty and filial based on pre-Qin days ’Confucianism spirit.Under this kind of morality conception of history’s influnce, Xie looked forward to the heydays of pre-Qin , advocated to strengh the right of prime minister, restrictied unreasonable swelling of monarchical power .He thought that those pre-Qin countries which performed the policy of “kingcraft” and “benevolence” were beneficial for reaching extreme administering.Xie reversed historical figures with Confucian integrity,thought that they promoted the progress of history,and were remembered by people.From the angle of confucian morality , Xie took discussing ceremony as a turning point, disliked the social phenomenon not dealing with concrete matters and “good and evil confusedness”.And he feel resentment and disgust to social phenomenon that is lack of pragmatic and moral failure of the historical figures.The author thinks that under the background of Neo-Confucianism of great classics-expositors’rising, Xie committed himself to pursuing and exploring Confucian morality conception of pre-Qin ,and embodying the courage of pursuing academic freedom.
Keywords: Xie Jishi， Historical Criticism，conception of history，Confucianis
