After reading about Confucius' spontaneity, high school essay, to be about 600 words

In our impression, Confucianism is a very worldly culture that emphasizes on matters of merit and human ethics. However, Confucius, as the originator of Confucianism, was actually quite indifferent to utilitarianism and quite flexible in his attitude towards ethics. These two aspects can be represented by two phrases, that is, "a gentleman is not a weapon" and "a gentleman is not kind". Confucius was a scholar, and he had his own views on reading. He advocated reading from the point of view of interest. He was not in favor of the purely academic attitude of seeking knowledge for the sake of seeking knowledge ("It is better to know than to be good at it, and it is better to be good at it than to be happy at it"). He also advocated that reading is to perfect themselves, despise the kind of fame and reputation of the vulgar literati. He said that "the ancient scholars for themselves, today's scholars for people". He emphasized time and again that it is important for a person to have real talent and real learning without caring about external reputation and encounters, similar to "not to worry about not knowing oneself, but to seek to be known". Such words are repeated at least four times in the Analects. Confucius was originally a scholar. Generally speaking, when a scholar studies hard, he has a goal in mind, which is to become an expert in a certain field one day, so that he can have a stable career in the society. Confucius once frankly said, a real person is not a weapon ("gentleman not a weapon"). Therefore, some people did ridicule him for being learned but not specialized, and he did not get angry, but laughed at himself and said, "Then I will take driving horses and carts as my specialty. These words not only reflect his view of learning, but also his view of life. For example, once he talked to four of his disciples and asked them to talk about their aspirations. Three of them said they wanted to be a military man, an economist and a diplomat respectively. The only one who said he wanted to be a military man, an economist and a diplomat was Zeng Duan, who said that his ideal was to go out in March in the late spring, lightly dressed, with a number of children, to swim in the river, cool off under the forest, and sing all the way home. Confucius listened to him and said, "I think the same as Zeng Dot". The saint's sigh, lively sigh out of his untainted spirit, so that two thousand years later, one of the most important spirit of the literary theorist was greatly touched, and even changed his name to Jin "Sheng Sheng Sheng". To commemorate him. In the view of Confucius, life in the world, why do you need to become what ware, what family it, as long as the life of a leisurely and comfortable, is not better than everything?

The scholarly community generally believes that "benevolence" is the core of Confucius's thinking, as to what is "benevolence", many say differently, but not out of the ethical and moral category. Confucius is a fact, do not deny. But he was a smart man, and if a person is smart enough, he will never fail to see the relative nature of all ethical norms. Therefore, it is not surprising that the phrase "a gentleman who is not benevolent has been carried forward" came from the mouth of Confucius, who did not regard "benevolence" as a prerequisite for ideal personality. Some people attribute benevolence to the words of loyalty and forgiveness, in fact, Confucius never advocated foolish loyalty and indiscriminate forgiveness, he always differentiated between the two situations of "the state has the way" and "the state has no way". "When the state has no way, you should take the beam and float on the sea (escape if you can), but if you can't escape, you should say "Sun" (it's better to speak less). It's even better to play dumb ("Foolishness is beyond reach" is an idiom from the Analects of Confucius, which is not meant to describe stupidity, but rather a compliment from Confucius for someone who has played dumb in a brilliant way, equivalent to Zheng Banqiao's so-called "hard to get confused"). He was not like Christ, who, when you are beaten on the left side of your face, asks you to put the right side of your face as well. When he was asked whether he should "repay kindness with kindness", he asked in return, "Then what should be used to repay kindness? Then he said, it should be to pay back the grudge with justice, and to pay back the favor with kindness.