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Confucian Idea Of ​​god

Posted on:2007-02-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360182986051Subject:History of Ancient China
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China -Confucious in the period before Qin Dynasty was a philosophy how to be a human. The view of China-confucious to the world was shown through the opinion to how to be a human.There is an intimate relationship between the opinion to the world by Confucius in the period before Qin Dynasty and the opinion to God by Zhou Dynasty. The ruler of Zhou Dynasty thought that the mind of God was shown through the mind of the people to the government, so the ruler of Zhou Dynasty regarded taking emphasiz on human as the respect to the mind of God. In the thought of the ruler of Zhou Dynasty, the mind of God was the root of the morality. The people who lived in the period of Chunqiu inherited the tradition of respecting God from Zhou Dynasty and they concluded the theory of God controlling human, which thought that people should show their respect to God through taking part in the movement of respecting human. In the impact of the theory of God controlling human, Confucius who living in the Chunqiu period and having taken interested in the traditional culture, had founded his positive view to the life, though he was not easy to achieve the success to get the power to help the people. Meng Zi had taken in the theory that the morality was from the mind of the God and had developed the theory to the God by Confucius, who concluded a point that the nature of human came from the mind of God. Xun Zi who lived in the same time with Meng Zi inheriting the thought of respecting the morality, human and God, thought that human should positively take advantage of the matter endowed by God. There were three books to concluded the wisdom of Confucius, Mengzi and Xunzi, whose name were Daxue, Zhongyong and Yizhuan.
Keywords/Search Tags:Confucius, Mengzi, Xunzi, The order from God, Morality
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