The basic content of the Han Dynasty Neo-Confucianism, its difference and connection with the pre-Qin Confucianism

The basic content of the Han Dynasty Neo-Confucianism: 1, the core idea is "heaven and man induction", based on the sky, plus an external belief in all things under the sky, in order to control the people's thinking. 2, depose the hundred schools, and exclusively Confucianism.

Differences are:

1. Han Confucianism absorbed the ideas of the study of punishment, recognizing the complementary relationship between rituals, music, punishment and government, and advocating the combination of benevolence and the rule of law, with virtue as the mainstay and punishment as a supplement, emphasizing the importance of moral education, and better handling of the relationship between morality and punishment, which is in line with the strategy of the country's governance in the face of adversity and obedience;

2. The most important thing is that it has joined the concept of deification of the monarch. The most important is the inclusion of the concept of the deification of sovereignty. Focusing on the consolidation of the political power of the entire feudal state, Dong Zhongshu theologized Confucianism, putting forward the theory of the induction of heaven and man, which theologized ethics and morality; and the theory of the divine right of kings, which provided theological arguments for the rationality of the monarchical dictatorship.

Internal connection:

1. Han Confucianism utilized the theories of pre-Qin Confucianism, well combined with the social environment of the time, to expand and carry forward; to use benevolence as a moral norm to restrain the ruler, to alleviate the contradictions in all aspects; to strengthen the patriarchal system, to strengthen the centralized * power, and to weaken the force of fragmentation.

2. Confucianism has always advocated a positive and active philosophy of life, which was also carried forward by the Han Confucians, changing the inactive style of Huang Lao.