ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the philosophy of Mou Zongsan 牟宗三. Mou is another important figure of the second generation of the new Confucianism movement. This chapter first focuses on his clear tendency to criticize and reform Chinese philosophy based on the value of western learning, especially in introducing western learning, and advocating intellectual reason and the construction of modern systems of his early works. Then this chapter focuses on Mo’s idea of new ontology for Confucianism. Mo thinks that morality must be related to the original heart-mind, the substance of human nature, which must be unified with the objective substance of Dao. Mo argues that this can only be done by a kind of intuition.
