关键词: 知识分类, 经学, 哲学, 伦理道德学说, 文化

Abstract: The key character of traditional Chinese Confucianism lies in the fact that it contains a well organized system of ethics, which is the head and spirit of traditional Chinese knowledge systems. However, Western philosophy was introduced into China at the beginning of the twentieth century, and it soon took the place of Confucianism, being considered as the new head. Thus Chinese knowledge systems began to be basically westernized, and their ethical quality was lost gradually. The Western scholars can always go to their churches for the moral education after doing researches in the different fields of sciences, while Chinese scholars normally cannot. In fact, the deprivation of the moral qualities of Chinese knowledge systems casts much shadow of moral corruption on the academic circles in China, which has been testified by more and more cases in contemporary China. Therefore, it is without much doubt that modern Chinese knowledge systems should be reconstructed with the restoration of ethics as their head and spirit, while not necessarily to copy exactly whatever said in Confucianism.

Key words: Classification of knowledge, Confucianism, philosophy, ethics, culture