Representatives of Confucianism and Their Thoughts

The representative figures of Confucian school and their thoughts are:

1, Confucius Confucius, the founder of Confucianism, takes "benevolence" and "ceremony" as the core.

2. Mencius? Mencius, the representative of Confucian idealist school, whose core idea is "benevolent government" and advocates "politicians get the people"

3. Gou Zi, a representative of Confucian realism school, inherited and developed the early Confucian thought of "rites and music", absorbed the legalist thought of rule of law, advocated paying equal attention to etiquette and law, and praised Wang Ba.

4. Dong Zhongshu advocated to oust a hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone. On the basis of Confucianism, he established a neo-Confucian ideological system with theological inclination and adopted the essence of "Huang Lao" and other hundred schools of thought.

5. Zhu, a master of the development of Neo-Confucianism. It inherited the thoughts of Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi, the Northern Song Neo-Confucianists, and further improved and developed the objective idealism system of Neo-Confucianism, which was later called Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism.

Confucianism is the core of traditional culture in China, and it is also the theoretical basis for maintaining the autocratic rule of feudal monarchs.

Confucianism is the most influential and far-reaching school among the pre-Qin philosophers. It was initiated by Confucius at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period and was highly respected by Confucian scholars in previous dynasties. Confucius' remarks were compiled into The Analects by disciples, which is the main basis for studying Confucius' thoughts.

Confucianism takes benevolence as the center, and advocates "respecting ancestors and respecting martial arts", "rites and music", "benevolence and righteousness", "loyalty and forgiveness" and "the golden mean". Politically, it advocates "benevolent governance" and "rule by virtue" and attaches importance to ethical and moral education.

Confucianism and absolute monarchy constitute the two main contents of China's ancient political history.