What is Confucianism as the School of Gentlemen

Confucianism is the School of Gentlemen

Confucius De Li

Confucius, as a great thinker and educator, pioneered the path of civilization, which is to lead the society by cultural upbringing. The kernel of this path of civilization is the path of peace based on benevolence. According to Confucius, the social order depends on people's cultural upbringing. The performance of cultural upbringing is the unity of inner virtue and outer behavior, and people with such cultural upbringing are? A person with this kind of cultural upbringing is a gentleman who is well-mannered and refined. The gentleman. In this sense, Confucianism is the study of gentlemen. The social value of Confucianism is to cultivate as many gentlemen as possible, and then to lead the social trend through the words and behavior of gentlemen. ? Those who are benevolent love others. The Confucianism is a social value of cultivating as many gentlemen as possible. Ren is a human being. A person with benevolence and love can be considered a real human being, who understands the rules, is educated, honors others, and treats others with respect. Warmth, goodness, respect, thrift, and yielding. Such a person is a gentleman. Benevolence is the love of a gentleman. To be benevolent, we must first do filial piety. People often say? filial piety and honor. Without filial piety, there is no honor. Honor? then you can't call it filial piety. Filial piety? What? Honor? Is it? The essence of filial piety is is the essence of filial piety. Some people think that to satisfy only the food and clothing needs of one's parents is to fulfill filial piety. Confucius criticized that if there is no respect for parents but only material provision, how is it different from raising dogs and horses? In ancient times, the Son of Heaven ruled the world by filial piety, being an example of filial piety in the world and advocating a filial and fraternal fashion for the whole world, which captured the fundamental issue of benevolent government.

Confucius did not explicitly say that human nature is good, but a person who is benevolent must be good, otherwise, how can we talk about benevolence? Mencius put forward the theory of the goodness of nature and the doctrine of benevolent government, which developed Confucius' idea of benevolence. When Mencius said that people are inherently good, he meant that all people have the germ of goodness (the good end), and that the germ of goodness is cultivated later in life, so that it grows and flourishes, ? Benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and wisdom? The four virtues are rooted in the heart, and a person is a moral person, a cultural person.

Centered on the science of benevolence, Confucius, Mencius and other Confucians expounded the virtues of being a human being, politics, friendship, providence, economy, ecology and other fields, in which the concept of "benevolence" is consistent. Ren? The spirit of benevolence is consistent throughout. The Confucian way of thinking is to turn the tables on oneself, and when things go wrong, first find out the reasons from oneself, instead of shirking responsibility and blaming others.

To make the excellent traditional Chinese culture play a role in moral reconstruction and become the foundation of socialist core values, we must grasp the core values of Confucianism, and to grasp the core values we need to have a series of maintenance? Ren? s initiatives.

The essence of benevolence is filial piety. First of all, society should vigorously advocate filial piety and fraternal duty wind, filial piety and fraternal duty wind up, love and friendly, honest and trustworthy values naturally came into being, other social problems can be solved. The spread of benevolence relies on the leadership of gentlemen. Social elites have manners and education, have the heart of benevolence, will form the social demonstration effect of the gentleman's virtue. If the outstanding talents in various fields of society have no etiquette and lack of benevolence, then there will be? Scholars have no shame, no social customs? The phenomenon. At present, the social moral problem is to a large extent the so-called "social elites". Social elites? The social morality problem is largely attributed to the so-called social elites, who have distorted the atmosphere. To promote the Confucian spirit of benevolence is to make the social elites compassionate and merciful. With the heart of the intolerant, the administration of the intolerant, the rule of the world can be transported in the palm of your hand.

The foundation of solid benevolence is education. The spirit of benevolence must be cultivated through education and social customs, thus Confucianism attaches special importance to education and learning. Confucius was confident that he was a good learner,? Ten rooms of the euphony will be loyal and trustworthy as Qiu, not as good as Qiu's good learning also? All moral qualities and manners must be acquired through learning, and the only way one can endeavor to change one's destiny is through learning, not other external forces. This is called ? Do not blame God, do not blame others, down to learn and up to reach?