Abstract: What the slogan of "doing Chinese philosophy" concerns or resists is the "narrative of the history of philosophy" with "transmitting without innovation", which will lose universal philosophical thinking in historical knowledge narration. Therefore, it aims to overcome the historical and local knowledge narration to achieve true philosophy. It is for rather than against the universality of philosophy. It is only in this sense that "doing Chinese philosophy" is a legitimate appeal. Although ethics is a subordinate discipline in philosophy, ethical relations are regional and hence it is legitimate to "do Chinese ethics". However, if we "do philosophical ethics" instead of "descriptive ethics", we must reach pure thinking through questioning the ethicality of ethic relations and the morality of morals. We must find some absolute standards or bases, instead of simply taking any particular ethical relations and morals as standards or bases. Doing Chinese ethics, just as doing Chinese philosophy, has to face with some principled problems:How to justify being and where is the homeland of existence? However, in Western tradition, it is only pure speculative philosophy that serves as the first philosophy, and it is always ontology that lays the foundation of ethics. Ethics can never function as the first philosophy to justify being. In contrast, isn't "ethics as the first philosophy" implied in Chinese philosophy, which is based on ethics? If we can consciously demonstrate this at the level of the first philosophy, that is, the justice of being of a priori ethical relations, then we can not only justify the legitimacy of Chinese philosophy, as well as Chinese ethics, but also achieve the modern transformation of traditional Chinese philosophy. This would be a great cultural career in realizing the sinicization of Western philosophy on the one hand and the globalization of Chinese philosophy on the other.

Key words: doing philosophy, doing Chinese ethics, first philosophy