THE CAUSES OF THE “FOUR BOOK”-S FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGY AND CULTURE

Abstract

The Four Books plays an important role In Chinese cultural history. The causes of the four books are not only the history events, but also a result of some contradictions that between psychology and culture. These contradictions are show in the following aspects: The contradiction between the social culture of morals landslide and the psychology of the Confucian ethics ideas; the contradiction between the conception culture about human nature and the transcendental psychology of human; the contradiction between the life culture of Buddhism and the entering world psychology of Confucianism.