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Original title “A useful way of contemporary Confucianism to connect with modern society – Yangguo Honor Award Interview”
Special Contractor: Li Nairu
Source: Original “Exploration and Contest” Issue 6, 2017
Time: Confucius was in the 2568th year of Dingyou Puyue, Gengchen
Jesus June 22, 2017
Assessing Confucianism cannot leave history
Li Nairu: Hello, Yang Zhi! I would like to teach you the concerns and concerns of the academic community in the development of contemporary Confucianism. Today’s Confucianism has a politically oriented direction to seek its breakthrough. From your research, if Confucianism gets too close to politics, what kind of changes will it bring to itself?
Yang Guorong: From a historical perspective, Confucianism itself has both presented itself in the form of academic thinking and has the effectiveness of social, political and religious affairs. Of course, these two forms cannot be completely separated, but their civilized meanings are different.
Confucianism has been used in the process of governing the country through the world. However, from the perspective of modern times, political Confucianism and Confucianism are based on Confucianism to manage tomorrow’s China. This is a non-historical approach, which is obviously difficult to operate.
Li Nairu: What do you think is the reason for your lack of prosperity?
Yang Guorong: The Confucianism was born in a specific social landscape in the pre-Qin period, and more than two thousand from the pre-Qin period to the contemporary eraDuring the evolution of the past history, Chinese society has experienced grand and in-depth changes in the times.
After the transformation and opening up, the social changes that occurred based on the development of the market’s economic aspects are extremely intense and in-depth, and are beyond the past. From daily life, it is not difficult to find such changes, such as the human existence and life method evolved from past life in the world to the current focus family, from the previous neighborhood relationships that were close to each other to the small residential areas that were not aware of each other, from the so-called acquaintance society to the public space of strangers, etc.
While society has undergone deep historical changes, if the previous norms and systems are still to be simply used to the present, this is obviously a short-term history.
This era of change is not a matter of human will, nor is it a question of whether or not or not. The influence of Confucianism in modern times does not mean that it has been used to manage society in the past or may be used to change it to tomorrow.
These social management and education methods have indeed been effective in history, but reorganization in today’s society may not be feasible.
In fact, what we should pay attention to is some profound concepts in Confucian thinking, such as philosophical concepts and value-oriented concepts. This concept often has broad meanings.
Li Nairu: Can Confucianism still plays a role in the construction of social ethics and social value?
Yang Guorong: Regarding the problem of guiding meaning or influence by Confucianism, I have mentioned it briefly in several articles in previous years. We cannot transplant some of the concepts included in Confucianism directly into today’s society one by one. However, from a broader perspective, Confucianism can still provide some concepts with guiding meanings.
Li Nairu: In the entire daily life of modern society, everything that is inclusive is under the economic logic of Eastern commodity. In terms of the continued value of civilization, this foundation is notIf you are negligent, it will produce a very inconsistent result.
Yang Guorong: The development of science and technology, the evolution of society, the changes in political systems, etc. These changes contain their certainty. At the same time, the transformation of modern society includes economic development from natural economy to commodity economy or market economy. This is not an isolated phenomenon of change. In fact, it will also affect all aspects of social career, such as politics, civilization, value view, ethics, daily life, etc. In fact, this impact we can see everywhere tomorrow.
We must correctly observe this change or influence. However, while some Confucian scholars emphasize Confucianism, they often do not miss this changing reality, and use single-oriented emotional recognition to worship and metaphysically transform Confucianism.
In fact, this can not really remind the profound meanings contained in Confucianism. On the contrary, it will make Confucianism far away from its real life and become harmonious with modern society. To put it simply, this is not harmful to Confucianism, but can be harmless to Confucianism.
Of course, on the one hand, we must correctly observe the changed reality, and on the other hand, we cannot make the reality develop in the absence of guidance. There are undoubtedly many imperfections in the operation and management methods of modern society. How should we provide a more fair market trend for the social change and human development? This is a problem that Dongfang Philosophy needs to think about.
Under this great landscape, Confucianism can undoubtedly contribute something unique and still interesting to tomorrow. This content does not express the contempt of politics, Confucianism, academic rejuvenation, etc.
What is really interesting is some profound concepts in Confucianism, including understanding of people, thinking about the conditions that can be compromised in social order, and so on. Although some of the specific explanations of this experience change in historical landscapes, human evolution and development always require that people face some broad problems, such as: How to make the relationship between people fair (comply with legal norms) and affectionate (feeling affectionate)? How to coordinate and make sense? etc.
To solve problems that cannot be prevented in the process of these human beings’ existence and development, the need to be based on the multiple thinking resources of East and East, and also to rely on traditional wisdom.
In terms of harmony and righteousness, on the one hand, since the value concepts since modern times, people often open their mouths and talk about justice. The latter’s reality is respect for personal rights, but only by emphasizing this point, it is often not difficult to make the relationship between people important as a legal and meaning contractual relationship, thereby pushing it to the extremeInclusive network, the warmth between people will often remain silent.
On the other hand, only speaking harmony, advocating the unity of man and nature, and the unity of all things can also flood the individual without being in the empty “one body” and “unity”. Here, we must not only prevent the development of social unity that can be caused by the pure and righteous conception, but also structure it only by saying “unity”. href=”https://sites.google.com/view/sugarpapa”>The negative social consequences of the harboring pipeline are maintained as similarly vigilant.
From the Confucianism itself, the unity of “benevolence” and “gratitude” has become its internal trunk, which is also related to social harmony and social justice. “benevolence” not only touches the world of people’s energy, but also relates to broad value principles, focusing on determining the value of people’s existence. This value principle specifically expresses a broad concern for people.
In traditional Confucianism, it is from “benevolence and love things”Inclusive network dcard to “communication and”, Rendao takes the harmony between people and people as the meaning of the topic. Compared with “benevolence”, “devotion” is on the level of the system. First, by establishing the boundary line, making specific regulations on the rights and responsibilities of each social member. This regulation also forms a real condition: from the most fundamental perspective, the rightness lies in getting what it deserves, and the latter’s real meaning lies in respect of rights.
In contrast, the fusion of “benevolence” and “gratulations” also provides a certain foundation from the perspective of conception to a unified state of harmony and righteousness. It undoubtedly has a guiding meaning for the development of social career. Despite the Confucian concepts such as “benevolence” and “gratulations” and Untouched and specific, practical social plans, but they give us attention to the development of attention and remind us to pay attention to the relevant aspects of social ope