Abstract

One of this article, the study of international importance and a brief introduction. II, "cause" and "ultimate cause" two word definition. The first way to discuss the ultimate cause significant problems who, when pushed the first book of Aristotle's Metaphysics and the second book . "Prota aitia" could also be translated as "first cause", but stressed the metaphysics of the second book there can be no backtracking of the infinite number of infinite reason, "not the first one, there is no reason at all" , so it has the "ultimate" meaning. In addition, the fifth book Aristotle's metaphysics also four "causes" a detailed analysis. Parameters, the ultimate cause of Western Philosophy Stanford, Chinese philosophy, the ultimate causes more than two of the next interview for an overview: it seems on the surface of Chinese Philosophy not so significant to discuss the ultimate reason. But in fact, in ancient days, God, Tai Chi, Taoism, science, gas and other concepts are discussed in this issue. This study will not only strive to Aristotle and future generations of Western philosophy to discuss this issue compare with the Chinese philosophy, and a number of ideas to try to convergence between the two. Many people think that Chinese philosophy to the ultimate cause of the inherent said the main reason that the system beyond the exotic; this study pointed out that Western philosophy has the following two different views: one as the ultimate cause of the universe as a whole beyond the above, such as Judaism , Christian, Muslim philosophy of God, Plato thought the reason type, Aristotle's "thought their ideas" , Neo-Platonic thought too an ancient Chinese mind days or God, Taoism in "Road", and so easy to Tai Chi Chuan. One kind of the ultimate cause lies within the universe as the ancient Greeks, the water, wind, fire, atomic, modern Sibinuosa that says "God is natural," they were all Hegel goes all the evolution of the concept, Engels, dialectical materialism, are regarded as the ultimate cause lies within the universe. Song Zhu Xi and the grounds of the gas cloud, the cloud Lu Xiangshan, "the universe is my heart, my heart that the universe", and Ming Wang goes, "My spirit that is the master of heaven and earth spirits", there is the ultimate reason intrinsic meaning. V. Conclusion to the Christian concept of God and the God of ancient China and the Taoist and Confucian concept of the "Road" to fusion, the remaining number of Chinese and Western philosophy is to be harmony. Conclusion of the "integration" and "harmony" two words and a new interpretation. This is a succinct introduction about the content, important, as well as domestic and foreign studies about "ultimate cause." Regarding the interpretations of the two terms, "cause" and "ultimate cause," the first one who discussed the ultimate cause in a revealing way is Aristotle in Book I and Book II of his Metaphysics. Originally, the term could also be translated as the "first cause;" yet Book Ⅱ, Metaphysics stresses that it's impossible to trace infinitely to infinite causes. "There would never be any causes without the first cause" , and the term was then bestowed with the meaning of ultimate. Besides, Book Ⅴ, Metaphysics contains a detailed analysis about four "causes." On the other hand, Chinese philosophy seems to refrain from discussing the ultimate cause so overtly. Yet quite a few concepts from the ancient texts-such as Heaven, God, Taichi, Dao, Li, and Chi-actually are somewhat concerned with this issue. In this paper, we first make efforts comparing Aristotle and the succeeding philosophers' related discussion in this respect with the discussion found in Chinese philosophy; then we will assimilate some thoughts from both sides. Many people assume that the doctrine of the immanent ultimate cause is central to Chinese philosophy while the transcendental ultimate cause is something alien. In this article, it's to be pointed that these two doctrines are what both Chinese and western philosophies have in common. One of the doctrines is to see the ultimate cause as something transcendental to the universe, like God in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic philosophies, Idea in Plato's thought, Aristotle's "thinking of / about thinking" , the One in Neo-Platonism, Heaven or God to the ancient Chinese, Dao in Daoism, and Taichi in Yi-Zhuan, etc. Regarding the other doctrine, the ancient Greeks' four elements and atoms, Spinoza's "God as Nature," Hegel's seeing all as the evolution of ideas, Engel's dialectical materialism, all these see the ultimate cause as something immanent to the universe. Ju Xi's doctrine about Li and Qi as well as Lu Xiang-shan's "the universe as my heart and my heart as the universe" in the Song Dynasty, and Wang Yang-ming's " my mind as the ruler of heaven and earth, gods and ghosts "are all possessed with the implications of the immanent ultimate cause. We assimilate the Christian idea of ​​God with the ancient Chinese idea of ​​God and the Daoist and Confucian idea of" Dao, while we harmonize the some other Chinese and western philosophical thoughts. In the conclusion, we interpret both "assimilation" and "harmonization" in a brand new way