"Complementarity of Confucianism and Taoism" and Personality

In the history of China's thought, it is no accident that there are two schools of thought, Confucianism and Taoism. The two seemingly opposite schools of thought are not so much two different understandings of the world by two different people as the two most important aspects of human understanding of the world, or one person's understanding of the two most important aspects of the world. If both are indispensable, it is really a historical regret.

Man is the product of nature, and this close relationship between man and nature makes everyone necessarily express their views on the nature in which they live; What is the world? How has the world changed? Although there are thousands of views, there are two basic views, one is that the world is material, the other is that the world is conscious, and at the same time, one is that the world changes with development, and the other is that the world remains unchanged. After man changed from a natural person to a social person, he had a relationship with society. How do people get along with society? What is the relationship between man and society? There are two basic attitudes, one is "joining the WTO" and the other is "being born". The views of Confucianism and Taoism on the relationship between man and nature and between man and society precisely express these two views. So as to form a complete system of human understanding of the world and a perfect outlook on life.

The world is material and things are dialectical.

Confucianism believes that the world is material, while Confucius does not believe that there are ghosts in the world and that ghosts can influence the world and people. Confucius "is speechless: strange, powerful, chaotic and divine" and advocates "staying away from ghosts and gods." Once, Confucius was ill, and Luz asked to pray for him. Confucius said, "So?" If so, I pray in the drought, but why am I still sick? "On another occasion, Lu Ji asked how to deal with ghosts and gods. Confucius said, "I can't deal with the living, how can I deal with ghosts and gods?" "In the Analects of Confucius, Confucius put forward various behavior patterns about man and nature, man and man, man and society. These patterns are all based on the fact that the world is material. He believes that the world can be transformed and puts forward various ideas to transform the world. This understanding of Confucianism provides a correct direction for people to understand the world, and makes transforming the world a human value. So there is a history of human beings transforming the world.

However, it is not enough to know that the world is material. Will matter change? What is the law of change? If you don't understand, you don't really understand the world, and you can't really transform it. Taoism just makes up for the deficiency of Confucianism in this regard. Laozi believes that things are the unity of Mao Dun: "Whether there is mutual growth, whether there is length, whether there is high or low, whether there is sound harmony, whether there is harmony before and after." At the same time, it is believed that things can be transformed into each other: "Happiness depends on disaster, and disaster depends on God"; He emphasized that when transforming the world, people must abide by the law of respecting objects: "It depends on heaven, criticizes great desires and emptiness because of its nature." Confucianism and Taoism complement each other in their understanding of the world, forming China's ancient and simple materialist dialectics and the correct way for people to know the world, that is, the correct world outlook.

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