| Because of the rapid development of science and technology and economic globalization, our country faces an influx of large number of western ideas. It expand countrymen’s horizon, but some negative thoughts of them Corrosion college students’minds, so college ideological and political education must play a role of Leading or correcting people’s thought. However, at present, the content and method of college ideological and political education of our country are deficient and ideological. It makes it can’t give full play to its function. Confucius thought of benevolence is at the heart of its philosophical thought, which after thousands of years of accumulation and inheritance. It which is the Chinese nation indispensable cultural environment and spiritual pillar, has the great spiritual power and greatly influenced people’s thought and behavior. For this reason, we study in detail what a role the benevolence thought of Confucius to improve the ideological and political education role. We hope our study can provide beneficial reference to college ideological and political education.This paper made a comprehensive analysis of the connotation of Confucian benevolence thought, and briefly described its panorama. At the same time, we carefully analyzed the present situation of the ideological and political education, and emphatically analyzed the existing problems, and explored the coherence points of them in the way of Contrast the characteristics of Confucian benevolence thought and the ideological and political education, and made the meaning of it is able to show. On that basis, we discussed how to use Confucian benevolence thought to improve the ideological and political education. This paper includes four parts.The first part is introduction, including the background and meanings of the research, Overseas and Domestic Research Status, research methods, and key and difficult points.The second part is the content of Confucian benevolence thought, including its core idea, important principles and methods, and educational idea.The third part is the suggestions that we analyzed the problems of the college ideological and political education, the similarities of their goals, the inspirations about content, methods, environment, educators and educational object.The fourth part is the value that Confucian benevolence thought can give to college ideological and political education.The fifth part is the suggestions that how to use Confucian benevolence thought to improve the college ideological and political education. Firstly, set a goal of integrated development with the principle of combining ability with character. Secondly, enrich the content of the education with the view of harmony. Thirdly, Improve effectiveness with Confucius’ education idea. Fourthly, make good education environment with effective methods. |