Simple Analysis Of The Golden Mean And Its Modern Sense Between Confucius And Aristotle

The Confucian thought is the basis of the doctrine of the mean thought inChinese philosophy, influenced generations of thinkers. In China for nearly twothousand years of history of ideas, the doctrine of the mean thought has been regardedas the essence of Confucianism. The doctrine of the mean thought of China began inConfucius, and thought, mencius and xun zi in the son get the development andimprovement of the pre-qin Confucian. Confucius is the doctrine of the mean thoughtis the basis of the doctrine of the mean thought and classical in China. In this paper,the analysis of the research is the doctrine of the mean thought of Confucius, anddiscusses the essence of the doctrine of the mean thought of Confucius meaning; Whyis the doctrine of the mean thought by Confucian scholars will be so valued andrespected; The effect of the doctrine of the mean thought to modern and advocate thenecessity of this kind of thought in modern society.Aristotle’s philosophy of the doctrine of the mean thought is foreign about thedoctrine of the mean thought is relatively complete and detailed discuss, typical. Thedoctrine of the mean thought is the core of Aristotle’s ethics concept and value pursuit,and his standard for judging good and evil, but he is used to measure and practice onthe basis of the virtue. The author thinks that, to understand and grasp Aristotle thedoctrine of the mean thought is necessary. He is the basic content of the doctrine ofthe mean thought and the method of its advocate, both for people’s ethics thought stateis improving, or for the development of today’s society practice, it is of greatsignificance.Historically, in both Chinese and foreign history of the doctrine of the meanthought is an important thinking methodology and practice ontology, the purpose ofthis paper is to analyses the doctrine of the mean thought in the Chinese and foreign sources in different societies, the comparative analysis of the thinking of the doctrineof the mean in the Chinese and foreign thinkers there different forming process.Through the interpretation of Chinese and foreign representative the doctrine of themean thought, to reveal the essence of the doctrine of the mean thought and apply thisidea to pay attention to the problem; Based on the doctrine of the mean thought in themodern sense, this paper advocates people to use the doctrine of the mean thoughtcorrect dealing with people and nature, man and others, man and society. Peopleshould carry forward this sacrifice the doctrine of the mean thought, the pursuit of agentle state of mind, a principle of justice and a because of the flexibility of changefor better from time to time, and develop a good middle attitude.