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An Analysis of the Reason that Confucianism is Used to Administrate the Countries before Qin Dynasty

Zhang Zi-hui

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Confucian's understanding of human nature goes through the steps that the human nature doesn't contain goodwill and evil,that it is honest,that it is malicious,and that it contains both goodwill and evil.From the angle of the system that values both benevolence and etiquette,however,Confucian doesn't consider absolutely that the human nature is good or evil.Meng Zi and Xun Zi emphasize the human nature property and the human social property only from different aspects.Confucian tries to foster the goodwill in the human nature with benevolence to make people learn loving and respecting others,and tries to restrict the evil with etiquette to make people have rationality and wisdom.The school emphasizing both benevolence and etiquette is Confucian's rational respond to whether the human nature is goodwill or evil.The steady and functional governing ways that the structure of family is the same as the one of country and that people should enthusiastically enter society are Confucian's rational utilization to the rules of the human nature.All of the above constitute the basis of the human nature that Confucianism is respected for more than two thousands years.

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Confucian's understanding of human nature goes through the steps that the human nature doesn't contain goodwill and evil,that it is honest,that it is malicious,and that it contains both goodwill and evil.From the angle of the system that values both benevolence and etiquette,however,Confucian doesn't consider absolutely that the human nature is good or evil.Meng Zi and Xun Zi emphasize the human nature property and the human social property only from different aspects.Confucian tries to foster the goodwill in the human nature with benevolence to make people learn loving and respecting others,and tries to restrict the evil with etiquette to make people have rationality and wisdom.The school emphasizing both benevolence and etiquette is Confucian's rational respond to whether the human nature is goodwill or evil.The steady and functional governing ways that the structure of family is the same as the one of country and that people should enthusiastically enter society are Confucian's rational utilization to the rules of the human nature.All of the above constitute the basis of the human nature that Confucianism is respected for more than two thousands years.

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Confucian's understanding of human nature goes through the steps that the human nature doesn't contain goodwill and evil,that it is honest,that it is malicious,and that it contains both goodwill and evil.From the angle of the system that values both benevolence and etiquette,however,Confucian doesn't consider absolutely that the human nature is good or evil.Meng Zi and Xun Zi emphasize the human nature property and the human social property only from different aspects.Confucian tries to foster the goodwill in the human nature with benevolence to make people learn loving and respecting others,and tries to restrict the evil with etiquette to make people have rationality and wisdom.The school emphasizing both benevolence and etiquette is Confucian's rational respond to whether the human nature is goodwill or evil.The steady and functional governing ways that the structure of family is the same as the one of country and that people should enthusiastically enter society are Confucian's rational utilization to the rules of the human nature.All of the above constitute the basis of the human nature that Confucianism is respected for more than two thousands years.

Key concepts: Etiquette, Goodwill, Rationality, Property (philosophy), Environmental ethics, Sociology, Epistemology, Philosophy

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