How Li Dazhao Evaluated Confucius and How He Should Be Evaluated

Li Dazhao's critical inheritance of Confucius and Confucianism

Confucius and Confucianism are the mainstay of traditional Chinese culture. As a young boy, Li Dazhao "read the four books, the classics and history" and was y influenced by Confucius and Confucianism. Therefore, Confucius and Confucianism once became the values and aesthetic standards for him to judge the politics and fashion after the 1911 Revolution. With the improvement of his understanding, after the beginning of the New Culture Movement, he saw clearly the negative factors of Confucius and Confucianism and their connection with the restoration of the imperial system, so he actively engaged in the ideological struggle against Confucius. After the October Revolution, he continued to criticize Confucius and Confucianism in a more profound and systematic way.

Li Dazhao's criticism of Confucius and Confucianism was based on the principles of analyzing and reasoning in the spirit of "the firmness of self-confidence and solitude" and "the elegance of tolerating the co-existence of others". He always insisted on taking the Western progressive culture as a reference, rejecting its contents that should be rejected, and at the same time, selecting and inheriting some of its reasonable elements and excellent traditions, and using them to construct his own philosophy of "youth", his outlook on life with vigor and vigor, his political outlook of democracy and righteousness, and his new ethical outlook of moralism. After the October Revolution, he used it to connect Marxist philosophy and scientific socialism. His critical inheritance of Confucius and Confucianism represented the correct direction and level of the times.

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