Confucianism promotes benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith, but ignores human selfishness, does Confucianism really distort human nature?

Confucianism advocates benevolence, wisdom, propriety, righteousness and trust, and there is nothing wrong with it in itself. It's just that later generations have tilted left or right in the process of understanding and spreading it, and many of the ideas have been utilized in the political world, and people have been kidnapped by morality! In fact, all Chinese ideas are derived from the Tao, which is of course the Tao in the broad sense, not Taoism in particular.

"Abandon benevolence and righteousness, and the people will return to filial piety and kindness." Regarding the content of benevolence and righteousness, there is nothing wrong with benevolence and righteousness, so why do we still need to exterminate and abandon it? In our time, people can no longer touch the door of the Tao, the best way they can catch, is benevolence and righteousness, but people often forget the others after highlighting benevolence and righteousness, and even put them in opposition to interests, so they tend to call those who talk about benevolence and righteousness as gentlemen, and those who emphasize interests as villains. Under the banner of benevolence and righteousness, "falsehood and emptiness" will prevail. No matter what the matter is, they use benevolence and righteousness as the standard of judgment, and they are on the line, just like Cheng Zhu's theory, and they come up with a fallacy like "starvation is a small matter, but the loss of modesty is a big matter".

A family or an individual, the conditions of survival are not guaranteed, there is no benevolence to talk about. If you can harmonize benevolence and interest, both benevolence and righteousness and other rational aspects of the constraints, but also the material conditions of life to ensure that people's lives can live in peace and happiness, the father and the son is also a natural thing.

"If you abandon your skill and profit, there is no place for thieves." On the Taoist level, righteousness and profit should be mutually antagonistic, mutually constraining, and mutually balancing, and over-emphasizing the importance of righteousness while denying the existence of profit will certainly lead to problems. In the era of "selflessness", who can really be selfless, those who shout the most ferocious, may be more behind the back of selfishness, many people face a set of things, behind a set of things, the surface article is very beautiful, but in fact is the most selfish and self-interested people. In this environment, people do not make falsehoods, almost can not survive, which causes people can not be pragmatic style of life and work style, and a society that is not pragmatic, the economy can not be very good development.

But too much emphasis on profit at the expense of righteousness, there will also be problems, people's selfishness will be inflated, the collective view, the overall view will be undermined, and all kinds of trickery will arise. In the case of certain social and material conditions, if too much talk about trickery, talk about profit, will inevitably create a psychological imbalance, although people in a variety of ability gap, but not many people think they are worse than others, the struggle for power and profit will inevitably happen, and those powerful groups will inevitably control the vast majority of the resources and wealth of the community, on the contrary, the disadvantaged groups, they even have difficulty in survival, if the society does not have a good welfare protection system, it would be strange if it does not produce thieves. "Satiety and warmth give rise to lust, and hunger gives rise to thievery." People are not born wanting to be thieves, many people are forced to do it, even if some people become habitual thieves, the main reason is still the family financial reasons or family misfortune caused.

This is the Tao Te Ching enlightenment Confucianism's benevolence, wisdom, propriety, righteousness and faith, the saints are not self-is, do not see themselves, so the saints only manifested and bright!