What is the essence of Confucianism?

The essence of thought is to advocate "benevolence and righteousness", and Confucius and Mencius are the representatives of Confucianism.

Confucius takes "benevolence" as the core of his thought, which means "love". Put forward the arguments of "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you" and "stand if you want, and reach if you want", advocate the principle of "loyalty and forgiveness", and think that the implementation of "benevolent policy" should be based on "courtesy": "self-denial, courtesy is benevolence". ?

It emphasizes the combination of "learning" and "thinking", and puts forward the viewpoints of "learning without thinking is useless, thinking without learning is dangerous" and "reviewing the old and learning the new".

Extended data generation background:

Confucianism was founded by Confucius, a thinker at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and has gone through nearly 1700 years of China civilization history. Confucianism founded by Confucius has formed a complete ideological system on the basis of summarizing, generalizing and inheriting the traditional culture of respecting relatives in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

Cultural influence:

1, Confucianism has a profound influence on China culture. For thousands of years, feudal society only taught four books and five classics. The traditional thoughts of responsibility, the doctrine of the mean and loyalty and filial piety are all the results of their combination with feudal rule. Therefore, Confucianism is the mainstream of contemporary thought.

2. Confucianism has existed in China for thousands of years, and it still has great potential influence on China's politics and economy.

3. Modern enterprise management has also injected a lot of Confucianism.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Confucianism