Hsiung Shih-li is the founder of the ”new Confucian school” in modern China. Edmund Husserl is the founder of phenomenology in the West. This essay brings into bold relief of the similarities and differences between the ideas of these two philosophers. On the one hand, they both explore the structure of consciousness and come to the same conclusion that consciousness is the consciousness of something, in other words, acts of consciousness have the peculiarity of relating in various ways to presented objects. Furthermore, they both emphasize that intuition, expecially the reflexive intuition, plays an important role in philosophical knowledge, and that ontological research must begin with an analysis of the constitutional functions of consciousness in cognitive activities. On the other hand, Hsiung insisted that true philosophical knowledge and moral self-cultivation can complement each other, since the original mind, regarded as ontological originator and moral ”causa prima”, manifests itself in all things and is linked with the human mini Therefore, people have to live in accordance with the original mind in order to obtain happiness and contentment. This point of view would be alien to Husserl, insomuch as he abides by intellectualism and cuts off the relationship betwween knowledge and moral cultivation.
