An Analysis Of Confucius' Scientific Thought

Confucius wrote a lot of books throughout his life.The six Confucian classics compiled by him,and the "The Analects" and "Book of Rites" compiled by his disciples and subsequent disciples not only maintain the original appearance of ancient documents,reflect Confucius' political ideals and educational thoughts,but also record a large amount of ancient scientific knowledge.Formed the unique scientific thought of Confucianism.Although the scientific thought of Confucius is scattered in various classics,the system is relatively complete,and it contains a wealth of thoughts on heaven,earth,and humanity.Confucius' scientific thoughts include a strong spirit of truth-seeking and innovative exploration,a scientific character of clear knowledge and morality,a strong humanistic concern for living and loving things,and a scientific sense of respect for the sky and fear of life.In-depth exploration of Confucius' scientific thoughts,and drawing on his scientific wisdom,objective and realistic,and benevolent,will help us to prevent possible harm to humankind caused by the "double-edged sword" of scientific and technological progress.To clarify the historical misreading of Confucius' scientific thoughts,to pursue the realistic value of their scientific thoughts,to clear the source of Confucian scientific thoughts,is an important academic task of contemporary scientific philosophy research.The scientific thought of Confucius was the source of the scientific thought of Confucianism in later generations.Confucius once asked Lao Tzu to gain an understanding of the Tao of the evolution of natural laws,and provided scientific observations for him to explore the conditions of natural transformation in the Book of Changes,to deduce the laws of evolution of the hexagram calendar,and to explain the laws of cosmic motion Methodology.On this basis,Confucius also recorded a large number of astronomical phenomena,analyzed the spring and autumn cold and summer,deduced the lunar calendar,and also recorded a large number of ancient animal plants,mountains and rivers,meteorology and hydrology,and various geological disasters.Hundreds of things,the Hypothesis of Life,the Hypothesis of the Origin of Life,and the Hypothesis of Life,which form a healthy life-time hypothesis,have formed a unique view of heaven,earth and humanity.Confucius' s theoretical exploration and in-depth thinking in science are important achievements of the original period of ancient science in China,and they also provide theories and methods for the natural research for the use of the world by many disciplines.However,Confucius despised the study of nature without the use of "enlightenment",and was not clever.It also caused great trouble to the development of ancient Chinese science and technology.Eliminating its dross and extracting its essence can provide us with useful historical references and thinking inspirations to promote scientific and technological progress.