A Study About Pre-qin Confucian View On Public-private Relations

The pre-Qin period, public-private concept gradually from the specific meaning oftransition for the semantic abstraction.Public meaning gradually from the king to reflect socialpublic value existence, while private meanings from the earliest private and gradually becomethe common people’s interests, an affair.Confucian thought politicians or public institutionsonly reflects certain social public value, is the only public presence, otherwise it is still aprivate.Therefore Pre-Qin Confucian said the public is social existence and social valueunity.Thus the public-private relationship is the essence of social and personal relationshiptoo.The Confucian view of public and private basic view is that respecting public andprivate.In the theory of human nature level, they think the egoistic nature is the existence ofevil, and therefore do not recognize its value rationality.In the interests, they think the worldnational interests above personal interests, individual to self-interest pursuit of detrimental tosociety and the national interest.In the personal and public rational level, they think the publicreason than personal emotion.Kiss, they pay more attention to the social ethics value ratherthan just take it as a personal emotion, so Confucian must kiss is not equal to the affirmationof people’s personal feelings; in political life, personal emotions and public reasonincompatible, because Confucianism advocating public rationality, so individual emotion isstill inhibited.Although Confucianism respecting public and private, but it is not completelyeliminate the private, in which we seek to contradictory discourses that still can see its timespirit and humanistic spirit of two spiritual purport.They worship, is out of time is considered,but also the social and political integration and reconstruction of social values and moralneed.While respecting public I, we can still see the Confucian with humanistic consciousness,they advocate public-private two points put public interests before private ones, in the premiseof respecting and protecting people’s privacy, as far as possible in both the public and theprivate interest.The Confucian view of public and private in the contemporary still has certainsignificance, which advocates the public reason can promote the construction of politicalcivilization, the emphasis on family support and family ethics culture and spiritual civilizationconstruction of the precious resources, its position in public life and private field two pointsand modern philosophy has some similarities, is to construct Chinese modern public theoryand Chinese modern and contemporary philosophy of the rare wealth of ideas.