An Inquiry Into Credibility Thoughts Of The Analects Of Confucius

The credibility thought of the was developed during the Spring and Autumn Period when etiquette and ethic code were violated, the princes vied for supremacy and the whole nation was in a state of chaos.During this period, with the prevailing social ideological trend that turned to regard people highly from the worship of gods, on the one hand cheating and dishonesty like"the strong robbing the weak"and "the stupid were being cheated" were widespread across the social ethic area, on the other hand the trend of thought was on good faith and ethics, which aimed to build credibility. The credibility thought of the was originated from the idea such as "promise"and "trustworthiness" of the Dynasty Shang and Xi Zhou, which was related to the worship and oath to ancestors or gods. It was thus the inheritance and development from the worship of gods to the human being. The rich culture resources of the Zhou Dynasty in the State of Lu was the most important preconditions for the establishment of credibility thoughts of the mainly includes: Credibility is the base for any individual to settle and survive in a society; Credibility is the essential need for people to handle interpersonal relatioship,and credibility is the fundamental principle for people to rule a country and to be in politics.The main characteristics of the credibility thought of the includes:the conotation and the implication of "honesty" is represented in the form of "respect" and "loyalty". "Honesty" is implied and resides in"trustworthiness". Thus, "Honesty"is the foundation of the moral and ethic thought of the while "Integrity" is the value standard and benchmark of the credibility thought of the .The credibility thought of the has its profound historical impacts and great realistic significance.From the history perspective, credibility thought of the was the primitive form of the credibility thinking of the Confucianism, an important means of political governance by the feudal rulers and a basic commercial and business principle for many merchants to observe in the feudal society. Moreover, it is the traditional virtue and the common psychological belongings of the Chinese nation. From the reality perspective, there exists varying degrees of credibility loss in the domains of politics, economy, culture, education and other fields in current China. The reasonable element of the credibility thought of the has the key reference and promoting role to play for building up the Chinese socialist market economy, for setting up the credibility ethics of the honest government and the leadership, for shaping the core values of the socialism,and for the establishment of the socialist harmonious society.Rooted in the small-scale farmer economy and patriarchal society, the credibility thought of the has its obvious theoretical drawback and historical limitations. The main restraints are the following:It has strong self-discipline inclination that ignores the external constraints and norms; It has strong and single-sided emotional feature which results in the lack of equal and rational needs; It has the clear pursuit of the ethical idealist value which results in the lack of legal norm restrictions. Only by realizing the modern transformations of the credibility thought of the, by integrating self-discipline with discipline,sensibility with rationality, and value rationality with instrumental rationality can the move towards the market,towards modernization and towards the world.