Confucian View Of Rationality And Its Modern Value

Reason and desire are the eternal themes of human society."Reason" refers to the texture of the object itself or the processing of jade.With the development of the times,it has given the meaning of "reason" to the moral level.Because "jade" is a warm and glossy beauty stone,the ancients took it as the incarnation of the benevolence and righteousness and the gentleman.After that,the "reason" is extended into a law and a rule,which is an objective existence,and the value and function of "reason" is further promoted.Different from "reason",the meaning of "desire" is more direct and simple,that is,desire and greed.Because of the expansion of desire and the resulting harm,the ancient regarded "desire" as evil.The view of reason and desire is the viewpoint on the relationship between reason and desire.Many important thinkers in the pre Qin period thought and elucidate the relationship between reason and desire.To the development of the Song and Ming Dynasties,is the two sides of reason and desire in the opposite.In the history of science to the development of ideas in this paper focus,a detailed explanation of its significance,research ethics it contains,and in-depth analysis of China appeared in modern society to tangle,Confucian Principle to thought into the modern society,it points out that the Confucian Principle desire thought plays a positive role in modern society play.