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Progressive Impact Of Confucius's Ideal Of Heaven And Ghost

Posted on:2009-12-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360242988489Subject:Ancient Chinese literature
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This paper studies the fate of Confucius is not the specific content of spirits, but its psychological significance of the Chinese nation and national character shaping a major influence and role. First of all research papers from the Confucian concept of heaven ghosts starting with the historical background, expounded the "Heaven" and "ghosts" and the significance of the background is from the original inhabitants of the natural world and lack of self-awareness and scientific understanding of the nature-worship and ancestor worship and so on. Shang era will dominate the natural changes and human capacity to face all the supernatural called "Imperial", every thing divination, and witchcraft activities and worship prevalent. Zhou Xia and Shang Dynasties perished since the lessons learned on the basis of the understanding of the beginning of the day that the moral sense, Zhou Dynasty era shift "God" cultural "Humanism "culture. The era of Chunqiu, people thought this rise, there have been scolded thinking. Confucius build a new mode of thinking and the spirit of system, it is important to Chunqiu before ghosts religious political ethics, and to pay attention to development moral culture at the core of human nature of the new level. This is a significant and far-reaching impact on the political and ideological and ethical revolution. In order to promote filial piety and benevolence, he certainly ancestral burial ritual significance of the humanities, this is the ethical responsibility of the confirmation order and the maintenance of social ethics.Confucius's ideal of the progressive significance ghosts, the most prominent of this life for life, the value of concern to the survival of mankind in this world of the spirit of caring and human values. Chinese people have never formation of the will of the personality of God worship and belief of the people due to the concerns of real life. Confucius thinks that people should understand and recognize the authenticity of the death of the limited nature of life; we should take the reality of life as the starting point, in the limited life to realize their own value. Confucius's ideal of the spirits has a far-reaching impact on future generations, mainly for the Chinese people to real life concerns. Feudal society, rulers at the upper levels and lower levels of public awareness of the spirits of heaven are undergoing a long process of development. These concepts of literature and art have a great impact.
Keywords/Search Tags:Confucius, Heaven, Ghost
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