History and Ontology

Li Zehou has proposed three famous propositions which has made important progress theoretically in related ideas. The first one is “experience becomes a priori”, which means to solve the problem of the source of congenital (a priori) form on the stratum of genre. But this proposition is to be continued by “a priori back to experience”, i.e., only by coming back to individual, can the universal form influence the individual’s concrete behavior. The second one is “history constructs ration”, which shows the relationship of the formation of rationality to the historical process, but this proposition is to be added with “ration penetrates into history”, while the latter proves the openness of ration itself. The third one is “psyche becomes ontology”, which affirms that consciousness and mind could be precipitated into innate ontology of the individual, while this proposition is also need to surpass individual and added by “ontology exists in psyche” which affirms that the universal ontology needs to further merging into the psychological form of the individual, thus to provide moral behavior with innate mechanism. As for the relation between rights and goodness, the rights should include the content of goodness, and “goodness” not only includes principles of value on the stratum of form, but also means on the substantial stratum a more humanized way of human’s being. In the realm of ethics, at the same time, the life orientation must be distinguished from the moral significance of behavior, and concerned with a unity of legal consciousness and conscience. By directing to cultural and spiritual life of human being, Li Zehou’s theory of “ontology of sentiment” contains a concern to the ultimate significance of life, while on the distinction between human nature and human sentiment, it is necessary to re-concern the theory of “mind unifies human nature and human sentiment”.