Wang Anshi's Political Ethics Thought And Its Contemporary Value

From 1069 B.C to 1085 B.C,Wang Anshi,a political reformer during the Shenzong period of the Northern Song Dynasty,led the Xining reformation.In this famous political reform practice activity,he presented and practiced his unique political ethics thought.The study of Wang Anshi's political ethics and its contemporary value not only contributes to the theoretical construction of our country's political ethics,but also provides a historical reference for the construction of political civilization today.Wang Anshi's political ethics thought have profound social and historical roots,philosophical ideological foundations,and personal subjective and objective conditions.First,the economic and political culture of the Northern Song Dynasty laid a solid social background for Wang Anshi's political ethics.Second,the philosophical thoughts such as ontology,human nature theory,and values provide important theoretical foundations for Wang Anshi's political ethics.Third,Wang Anshi's life practice and personality characteristics have played an important role in the formation of his political ethics.Wang Anshi's political ethics thought contains very rich content.First of all,Wang Anshi has a clear sense of political ethics.In the entire political practice,he has always been adhering to the "three insufficiency" spirit,through the "change the customs,the degree of legislation" approach,in order to achieve the ultimate goal of "rich the country and strengthen its forces to support the people".Second,Wang Anshi has a strong sense of institutional ethics.He proposed institutional ethical goals such as "Establish Good Faith to the World" "Look up and down to abide by the law" and "Manage the World's Finances".Third,Wang Anshi's political ethics thought has a strong moral sense of the subject.In order to achieve the political ideal of "same-governance in the world" he proposed special ethical requirements for the political body to be self-cultivated,clean and honest,and promising.Wang Anshi's political ethics thought has had a far-reaching influence on the Northern Song Dynasty and later generations.On the one hand,it has a positive effect on the political ethical ideology of the Northern Song Dynasty and later generations;on the other hand,it has its historical limitations.Therefore,historically,there have been two very different evaluations on Wang Anshi's reform and his political ethical ideas in the practice of reform.Nowadays,our country is in a period of further deepening reforms,social transformation and development.Solving the political ethics issues that have emerged and will emerge in this process is still of urgency and necessity.The reasonable core of Wang Anshi's political ethics thought has very important reference value for cultivating our country's political ethics consciousness,the construction of system ethics and the moral construction of political subject.