On the Confucian Thought of the Rule of Virtue

The Confucian political thought was characterized by the rule of virtue, which was the summation and development of the traditional general plans of administering the country. The Confucian viewpoint on the rule of virtue had the rich implicatures and formed a unique system; furthermore, it was considerably penetrating, which was the firm foundation of the rule of virtue of the political thoughts of Confucianism. In the Chinese history of the political and spiritual civilizations, there have been a great number of thinkers who had enriched and perfected Confucfian viewpiont of the rule of virtue. They had formed the complete theories of the combination of the rule by law with the rule of virtue and gave the active and directive play in the real wielding.