The Study Of Er Cheng's Confucianism Thought

It is the core content of Confucian legal thought to interpret benevolence and justice with penalty and evaluate penalty with benevolence and justice.The thought of law is the proper meaning in the system of Confucian thought.the Cheng Brothers’ inherits the orthodoxy of Confucius and Mencius,and its system of Neo Confucianism also shines with the light of the thought of law.When they view the relationship between reason and law,they think that one of the things of law is a way of presenting the reason between the world.In other words,reason is the source of law.Without the foundation of heaven,the national law becomes a tree without foundation and a water without source.Therefore,law should conform to the principle and maintain nursing.Presenting the relationship between reason and law in this way solves the problem of the origin and essence of law,and at the same time finds a proper reason for the establishment and implementation of criminal law.Therefore,the "law" of the Neo Confucianism should be controlled by "reason".Under the linguistic framework of "reason",Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi constructed the ontology of reason monism.There is an axiom in the world.All things have their own physics.Reason is the most basic concept that the world allows development.The "law" that the Cheng Brothers thought was "the use of reason".The laws and rites based on the principles of heaven play an important role in maintaining the ethics of ethics.Neo Confucianism is a highly philosophized Neo Confucianism and a practice based Neo Confucianism,which is particularly significant at the level of law.From the internal point of view,legislation,punishment system and related education are the practical needs to be solved;from the external point of view,Buddhism and Taoism extended to the level of law,which has a more serious impact on the orthodox discourse right of Confucianism.Therefore,the thought of the Cheng Brothers Neo Confucianism has a positive practical significance.Law is also one of the expressions of realistic political demands.How to shape the "reason" as the mainstream consciousness of law and even politics,rebuild the spiritual belief around the "reason" and finally achieve the political ideal of governing the country and pacifying the world is the deep meaning of the law based on the "reason".