Comparative Study Of The Theories On System Of Golden Mean Thought Of Aristotle And Confucius

The Golden Mean is praised by Aristotle and Confucius,But in comparising,we can discover that two people's thought is a little bit current and same, also have the different place. In generally speaking,the same aspects mainly has three:(1)All treat that The Golden Mean is the extreme beauty and virtue;(2)All be aware of that The Golden mean is the unify of morals evaluation and morals behavior, they think respectively that the mean is to grow respectively opposite medium the way and powers become in hour;(3) All was aware the dialectics thought of the content of The Mean , looking for a kind of" character in" with" and but dissimilarity". The different aspects have:(l) Opposite to say,the think of The Mean of Aristotle imply to beg to know the composition morely in content,it is can say a rational mean; While the doctrine of The Mean thought of the Confucius is opposite to have the thicker human nature meaning, can say is the doctrine of the mean of the temperament.(2) The experience character theory with check the differentiation of the human nature theory first. Aristotle think that The Mean morals is not inborn with originality,but acquire in the behavior of daily life . So, if one want to carry out the good character and mean morals,he must pay great attention to the habitual function and try to achive it in usual behavior. The Confucius thinks that the perfect virtue of The Mean is the popularity and realization of the benevolence in daily life . it is an internality inborn with oneself , So, as long as one cultivate it continuously in the dalily life , he can carry out the virtue of mean gradually.(3) The character is voluntarily with the differentiation that morals aware of self. Aristotle think that the virtue is the voluntary character, Only the behavior corpus voluntarily may call up the virtue of mean , emphasizing the will freedom in the realization function within a process.while the Confucius pay more attention to the responsibility of the virtue of The Mean, the doctrine of The Mean can say is the self-conscious doctrine of the mean in the larger...