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Some ideas of the "Rule of Virtue" of the Pre-Qin Confucian Scho ol

Baoguo Wang

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The of of Pre-Qin dynasty Confucian school was im po rtant achievement of Confucian summarizing and developing on ancient political c ulture, his purpose was to find one kind of ruling style to give the rulers who were in dangerous condition, but it had not been accepted by the rulers until Me ngZi, because neither Confucian nor MengZi didn't found the point what the ruler s wanted to accept. At the end of ZhanGuo Period, after XunZi changed the rule of virtue completely, the rulers accepted this thought. It had nine parts, some of them stood for the common people, but they were all rulers' yearning for rul ing voice, the rulers and their spokesmen all could not stood for the common peo ple to develop this thought, and pushed it to democracy.

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The of of Pre-Qin dynasty Confucian school was im po rtant achievement of Confucian summarizing and developing on ancient political c ulture, his purpose was to find one kind of ruling style to give the rulers who were in dangerous condition, but it had not been accepted by the rulers until Me ngZi, because neither Confucian nor MengZi didn't found the point what the ruler s wanted to accept. At the end of ZhanGuo Period, after XunZi changed the rule of virtue completely, the rulers accepted this thought. It had nine parts, some of them stood for the common people, but they were all rulers' yearning for rul ing voice, the rulers and their spokesmen all could not stood for the common peo ple to develop this thought, and pushed it to democracy.

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The of of Pre-Qin dynasty Confucian school was im po rtant achievement of Confucian summarizing and developing on ancient political c ulture, his purpose was to find one kind of ruling style to give the rulers who were in dangerous condition, but it had not been accepted by the rulers until Me ngZi, because neither Confucian nor MengZi didn't found the point what the ruler s wanted to accept. At the end of ZhanGuo Period, after XunZi changed the rule of virtue completely, the rulers accepted this thought. It had nine parts, some of them stood for the common people, but they were all rulers' yearning for rul ing voice, the rulers and their spokesmen all could not stood for the common peo ple to develop this thought, and pushed it to democracy.

Key concepts: Ruler, Virtue, Philosophy, Style (visual arts), Politics, Democracy, Period (music), Literature

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