Research Of Confucius Administrative Ethics And Its Contemporary Value

The rapid growth of the economy and the speeding up of globalization not onlychanging the way people work and live in a very short period of time, but alsomaking our country’s administration ethic problems increasing prominent. Confuciusadministrative ethics has reference significance to establish and improve our currentadministrative system. It can help to solve the problems at the present stage in ourcountry, such as the officialdom standard thought, the imperfect of administrationethic system and the lack of administrators’moral cultivation.The research on Confucius administrative ethics are mainly from three parts.First of all, make an overview of the social background of Confucius administrativeethic thoughts and Confucius personal growth and ideological tendencies, both ofthem had a profound impact on the formation and development of Confucius thoughts.Secondly, illustrates the main content of Confucius administrative ethics. The core ofhis thoughts is ‘Ren’ and the basic principle is ‘De’. The main ways to implement histhoughts are: advocate the governance principle of ‘Li’, adhere to the administrativetheory that based on the people, cultivate and correct the administrators’ behaviors atany time, select and employ the people who both has ability and moral. Finally,analyzes the characteristics and impact of Confucius administrative ethics. Histhoughts have patriarchal principles emphasis the morality cultivates from bothexternal and internal. He attaches great importance to practice and has full ofhumanistic feelings. These characteristics had positive and negative impact toChinese feudal society.The research to Confucius administrative ethics’contemporary value is based onthe reflection of its thoughts. The changes in administrative environment propose newrequirements for our current administrative ethics and it is manifested in three areas.Market economy system require us pay lose attention to equality and rules; themodern political system require us pay lose attention to democracy and rule of law;civil society require us to cultivate modern citizen consciousness. These analyzes helpus to understand the negative aspects of Confucius administrative ethics more clearly.The patriarchal hierarchy, the ignorance to the law and the excessive reliance on the rule by man are all the negative aspects that need to make critical analysis. But therealso have many contemporary values reflect in following areas. We can use forreference from the thought of ‘Ren’ and ‘benevolent rule’ to make the administrativephilosophy in clear; we can develop the useful and discard the useless to thegovernance principle of ‘Li’, and attach importance to the construction ofadministration ethics system; and to implement the cultivate and correct theadministrators’behaviors at any time.