Study Of Traditional Ethic Politics And Culture

China traditional political culture has a long history, rich in content, involving all aspects of social life. Since the implementation of "depose others, only Confucianism", in Han Dynasty, Confucianism occupied a dominant position, which influenced and shaped the development of China political culture. Compared with the western legal political culture, Chinese traditional political culture emphasizes morality instead law, moral and political confusion, showing the characteristics of ethical politics and culture distinct. The traditional ethic politics and culture most concentrated in Political morality, the political objective, political order, political power all were endowed with moral concept, so that the political was controlled by moral.At the same time, the social function ofmoral is extended to the political aspect, which expand the political function.Confucianism advocates "Virtue","righteousness benefit fraud","harmony between man and nature","being" is the ethic politics and the main part of culture, Which are the main part of Confucianism.The traditional ethical political culture is an indispensable tool for autocracy, impacting many areas of society. Autocracy had the aid of ethic politics and culture. Without the cooperation and support political culture, the legitimacy of the monarchy will be sorely questioned. Ethical political culture mainly emphasized that through moral education to maintain the autocratic political rule. Although the ethical political culture had been advocating a "Saint","rule by virtue", stressing "love people""protect people" which seems to have some progress, that just a kind of soft constraints, which depends on the emperor’s character, with great uncertainty. On the surface, the traditional ethics political culture pay more attention to the exertion of subjective self-cultivation and self perfection, but the essence of it is for self deprivation and human nature is suppressed and distorted.