Chinese Confucian Political Ethics

Syncretizing ethic principles with political system is the typical characteristic of Confucian political culture. This thesis mainly reviews and analyses Confucian political ethic thought .It has the developing history of Confucian political ethic thought as the clue, focuses on the analysis of political thought of some main representative characters and systematically elaborates some political ethic thoughts, such as "Working for the people , not foe the king ", "governing with morality ", "having benevolence as basis and courtesy as form ","having courtesy as basis ","regarding the relationship between the king and the people as the relationship between a boat and water ","holding the idea that the people are greater than the king ","appointing wisdom and accepting reasonable advice ","becoming a sage from inside and an emperor from outside ", "governing more on morality than on penalty", etc. . It is also discusses the essential characteristics of Confucian political ethic thought during its developing process and its epochal value.Confucian political ethic thought continually enriches and perfects its system and plays a vital role in urging the development of the history of Chinese thought .today, it is no doubt that studying and analysing traditional Confucian political ethic thought will promote the construction of contemporary democracy and politics.