What is the relevance of Confucianism as the mainstream thought of traditional Chinese culture to the development of today's society

1. Certain ideas are the reflection of certain politics and economy, and serve certain politics and economy. The development of ancient Chinese thought is fundamentally the result of the development of productive forces, accompanied by the development of natural science and people's deepening understanding of nature, and at the same time is also closely related to the political and economic environment of the society at that time, and even some of them are themselves part of the authoritarianism of the political component.

2. There is an essential difference between the ancient Chinese idea of "people-oriented" and the Western concept of humanism, and between the "rule of law" of the Legalists and the French Enlightenment thinkers' idea of the rule of law: gift and autonomy, authoritarianism and democracy.

3. Confucianism's sense of unity, people-centeredness, morality, and harmony are beneficial to the maintenance of the unity of the Chinese nation, the establishment of harmonious interpersonal relations, the enhancement of a sense of mission and responsibility in history, the pursuit of social development and the protection of the ecological environment.

4. The excellent culture formed in the long-term historical practice can be transformed into the spirit of the times to inherit; some of the contents of traditional culture can be extracted from its feudal ideological kernel, and its useful spiritual factors, so that it can become a useful ideological elements of today's construction of a new culture; on the dregs of traditional culture must be denied and discarded.

5. Reasonable parts of Confucianism:

Theories of education: teaching without discrimination, combining learning and thinking, and teaching according to one's aptitude

Ethics and morality: filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, honesty, etc. (socialist concept of honor and shame)

Maintaining social stability: benevolence, moral rule, and the people's principle of thought (abolition of the agricultural tax)

Maintaining the unity of the country: the idea of great unification (unification of the motherland )

Personal cultivation: self-reflection, self-cultivation, do not do unto others as you would not want them to do unto you, etc. (the eight adherence, opposition)

6, the significance of the reality

Contemporary Chinese leaders advocate the "rule of the country based on morality", "people-oriented", "harmonious", "the people-oriented", "the people-oriented", "the people-oriented", "the people-oriented", "the people-oriented" and "the people-oriented".

Contemporary Chinese leaders advocate the ideas of "ruling the country by virtue", "people-oriented" and "harmonious society", which is a new embodiment of Confucianism in the political philosophy of contemporary China.