关键词: 儒家哲学, 内圣外王, 价值取向, 本体论, 认识论

Abstract: Confucianism, an important school of philosophyin ancient China, contains extensive knowledge and profound scholarship and radiates wide and far-reaching impact. Its fundamental spirit and value orientationcan be generalized as “the doctrine of being saintly inside and kingly outside”. This thought of Confucianism has been interpreted differently in the ancienttimes and the modern times, which involves such relationships as between internal cultivation and external utilization and between the Chinese traditional learning and the Western learning. The doctrine of “being saintly inside and kinglyoutside”as a value, its ontology is based on the ontology of “heavenly laws”and “human relations”in the heaven-man relationship, and its epistemology isbased on the thinking of inner transcendence and the view of “integrating knowledge and behaviors”.

Key words: Confucian philosophy, being saintly inside andkingly outside, value orientation, ontology epistemology