A Comparative Study Of The View Of Sage In Pre - Qin Confucianism And Taoism

Sage personality is the highest ideal personality of Confucianism and Taoism’s pursuit. Confucius, Mencius, and Xunzi as representatives in the pre Qin Confucianism and Lao-tzu, Chuang-tzu as representatives of Taoism, has a distinctive personality for sage insights. This paper systematically sorts out and analyzes the Sage of Confucianism and Taoism’s history, development context, notable features,accomplishment methods and so on, then discusses the contrast and conjunction between them, pointed out that although there are differences in moral orientation,social ideals and principles of the repair between the Sage of Confucianism and Taoism.They are consistent with the subject of recognitions, the attitude of desire, spiritual sort of understanding and other aspects. The paper discusses the internal relations of the Sage of Confucianism and Taoism, tries to dig the relevance, and provides a useful resource for the construction of the contemporary Chinese ideal personality.