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Between Ideal and Reality:on "one body" thought of Confucianism and its relationship with Chinese cultural soft power

Liping Liu

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Confucianism tradition has been considered as the model of idealism all the time,it seems that the way of Confucianism is to hang in a moral idealism kingdom,leading the person in the common life to pursue and transcend.Is Confucianism tradition a kind of idealism out of reach? By analyzing essential feature and value orientation of Confucianism's one body thought,this paper argued that Confucianism tradition has been looking for a certain tension and elastic equilibrium between ideal and reality,Its orientation lies on between ideal and reality.Based on the analyse,the paper expounded the relationship between Confucianism tradition and Chinese cultural soft power further.

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Confucianism tradition has been considered as the model of idealism all the time,it seems that the way of Confucianism is to hang in a moral idealism kingdom,leading the person in the common life to pursue and transcend.Is Confucianism tradition a kind of idealism out of reach? By analyzing essential feature and value orientation of Confucianism's one body thought,this paper argued that Confucianism tradition has been looking for a certain tension and elastic equilibrium between ideal and reality,Its orientation lies on between ideal and reality.Based on the analyse,the paper expounded the relationship between Confucianism tradition and Chinese cultural soft power further.

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Confucianism tradition has been considered as the model of idealism all the time,it seems that the way of Confucianism is to hang in a moral idealism kingdom,leading the person in the common life to pursue and transcend.Is Confucianism tradition a kind of idealism out of reach? By analyzing essential feature and value orientation of Confucianism's one body thought,this paper argued that Confucianism tradition has been looking for a certain tension and elastic equilibrium between ideal and reality,Its orientation lies on between ideal and reality.Based on the analyse,the paper expounded the relationship between Confucianism tradition and Chinese cultural soft power further.

Key concepts: Idealism, Ideal (ethics), Power (physics), Value (mathematics), Epistemology, Philosophy, Soft power, Aesthetics

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