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Confucius "for The Government To Germany" Thought

Posted on:2011-11-02Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360305469039Subject:Chinese philosophy
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This article mainly studies Confucius's "politics by morality" thinking, and focus on the background of Zhou's moral politics, and strives to return to the origin. This article studies the Zhou Dynasty's "Command of Heaven" thinking and "ritual and music" culture, which explores the Confucius's historical background and theoretical origin as "politics by morality ". On this basis, the article deeply grasps Confucius's "benevolence- ritual" meaning, and emphasizes the Rule of "rites and music" ideal state.Zhou replaces the Shang's "Emperor" or "God" with "Command of Heaven ", which provides a theoretical basis for Zhou replacing of Shang. "Command of Heaven " is uncertain, but the reward and punishment is regular, its basis is the "moral". Duke Zhou made "moral" as the core, that undertaking the "Command of Heaven" above and protecting the people under. This article further studies Confucius's "Command of Heaven" thinking, which Confucius develops the destiny view of Duke Zhou in order to provide a theoretical premise for his benevolent rule. At the late of Spring and Autumn Dynasty, the world was injustice. Faced this social reality, Confucius sought to end the crises and restructured the social and political order. He pointed out that the "politics" meaning "right", and he used "the North Star" to define "governing by moral." On the basis of western Zhou moral politics thought, Confucian provides the moral politics plan of "guiding with moral, restraining with ritual". In that case, the society will be in accordance with the "benevolence" as the inherent requirement and "Ritual" as the external standard orbit to change the chaotic political situation, in order to achieve the state of "restraining oneself to ritual, the world would be toward to Benevolence ". Confucius yearned for the ritual culture of the Zhou Dynasty. Because Zhou inheriting and developing the culture of Xia and Shang Dynasties, and it is the most complete. Zhou founded the political system represented by patriarchal clan system and Feudalism. Including "Poem, ritual and music", all of these facilities and the political system culture make social and political achieved the "rites and music" order, toward to the orderly and harmonious ideal state.
Keywords/Search Tags:Duke Zhou, Confucius, Command of Heaven, moral politics, benevolence, ritual& music
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