What are the influences of Taoism and Confucianism?

First, the influence of Taoist thought.

1. Taoism advocates conforming to its development law, respecting the natural attributes of all living things in nature, and letting them develop naturally without artificial transformation and interference.

The modern concept of sustainable development is the extension and concretization of Taoist thought of respecting nature and the materialization of Taoist thought of nature. The idea of contemporary sustainable development is based on coordinating the relationship between man and nature, advocating people to love and return to nature more, and hoping that man and nature can develop together in a harmonious environment.

2. Taoism does not completely oppose human egoism, but advocates moderation.

This Taoist thought has important guiding significance for solving life problems and forming a correct outlook on life in modern times. In order to seek happiness, people want to satisfy their own desires. But if they want too much, they will get the opposite result. This view is still very useful in today's society.

Second, the influence of Confucianism.

1, Confucian moral and ethical theory is an important part of the Confucian system, which has had a far-reaching impact on the formation and development of traditional culture in China.

Filial piety is one of the important contents and characteristics of China traditional culture, and it is also the basic code of conduct and an important moral category in Confucian ethics. In the Confucian moral system, filial piety is the beginning and foundation of benevolence. Many Confucian discourses on "filial piety" are precious spiritual wealth of the Chinese nation, which are carried forward in today's society and passed down from generation to generation.

2. Confucian educational thought is more of a kind of moral education, and its value to contemporary people lies in revising ideological values.

The idea of "teaching without class" can be said to be the earliest idea of equal education. This idea should be of reference significance for solving the problem that school education is out of touch with social needs today.

In a word, the differences and complementarities of Taoist philosophy of life have their own advantages and complement each other. With its profoundness, it will always shine in the splendid cultural starry sky of China's traditional philosophy, and it will also affect today and even later generations.

Extended data

1, Taoism, as a complex theory, has gone through thousands of years since ancient times. It goes without saying that it will naturally go through many stages of development and have many different names. In its early days, according to the region and time, there were various titles such as Zheng Dao, Jin Dao, Qin Dao, Chu Dao, Qi Dao, Warring States Dao, Pre-Qin Dao and Primitive Dao.

According to the direction, there are northern Taoism and southern Taoism. From the end of the Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was a big stage. At that time, it was called "the study of punishment (form) curse" or "the art of Huang Lao's morality" It is another big stage in Wei and Jin Dynasties, which is called "Metaphysics" and "Metaphysics" in history. Although Taoism in each stage belongs to Laozi, it has its own characteristics. Taoism believes that "everyone is looking up at the sky and overlooking the earth."

Imitating heaven and earth, the behavior mode is "teaching by doing nothing, teaching without words". "Change with the times, change with things." Later, due to different emphases, it was divided into different factions and formed various factions. There are 37 schools of thought and 993 articles in the Records of Hanshu Yiwenzhi alone, which are highly praised by Ban Gu. However, after the Qin fire, the Han fire, and the death of the righteous official.

2. Confucianism was founded by Confucius, a thinker at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, and has gone through nearly 1700 years of China civilization history. Confucianism founded by Confucius has formed a complete ideological system on the basis of summarizing, generalizing and inheriting the traditional culture of respecting relatives in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties.

During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, China society was in an epoch-making historical change. The royal family declined in the Zhou Dynasty, and the feudal patriarchal hierarchy was greatly destroyed. Feudal lords fought for hegemony and social unrest.

At this time, intellectuals representing the interests of all walks of life are extremely active and become an important social force. They have stepped onto the historical stage, written books and put forward solutions to practical social problems, forming a prosperous situation in which a hundred schools of thought contend.

Among them, Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism and Mohism have the greatest influence. They each designed a set of plans for the emerging landlord class to end the separatist regime and realize reunification, which laid the foundation for the choice of social governance ideas after Qin and Han Dynasties.

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