孔子——圣之时者

Confucius:the Sage of His Time

孔子的学说超越了旧的局限 ,做出了合乎时代需要的选择。在宗教观方面 ,他高扬理性和人文主义精神 ,表现出从主宰之天向自然之天过渡的时代特征。在政治观方面 ,他改革周礼 ,解放主体精神。他发现了中庸 ,试图为道德本位主义的儒学奠定本体论基础。

The Confucian doctrine surpassed the conventional limit to make the choice of the time. In religion, he advocated reason and humanism, an indicative feature of the transition from a dictatorial Heaven to the natural Heaven. In politics, he reformed Zhou ceremonies to emancipate the subjective mind. He discovered the Mean where he made efforts to lay the ontological foundation for a moral based-Confucianism.