Confucius' Thoughts Of Righteousness And Profit And The Enlightenments

Chinese ethical thought is profound, in which the issue of the thought of righteousness and profit concerns the basic questions of human societical ethic life. Confucius is great thinker and educationalist of China in times of Chunqiu. In the profound theoretical system of Confucius, the meaning of the thought of righteousness and profit is especially exquisit .righteousness in Analects includes the request of concrete moral criterion towards different people in society in addition of the standard and scale used in process of put into practise each moral criterion. Profit is divided into Public Profit and Private Profit. Accroding to confucius, the behavior that is conducted by people in order to defend the overall, prime and long profit of country ,society and nation is the behavior accroding with Righteousness , Public Profit is Righteousness. In the thought of Confucius' righteous and profit, Profit opposite to Righteousness mainly prefers to personal Profit called Private Profit.The essencial characteristic of the thought of Confucius' righteousness and profit is that righteousness is more important than and identical to profit. Using righteousness to restrict profit is the essential theoretical principle of confucius' righteousness and profit . Cultivating the moral and correcting the mind is essential request of main moral principle put forward by Confucius when he deals with the relation of righteousness and profit. Consisting to the way of the mean is the methodological principle of rightly dealing with the relation of righteousness and profit.The reasonabal point of the thought of Confucius' righteousness and profit rests with claiming the unity of righteousness and profit, attaching importance to the perfecting of personality in the relation of righteousness and profit, stressing the public profit and social duty of person. The lacking point is not suitabal to all people but political elite, and emphasizing moral and person rule, otherwise taking light the constructing of law.In contemporary society , we should develop the useful and discard the useless of the thought of confucius' righteousness and profit, build up the new thought of righteousness and profit accroding with the developing request of time and society. We should unity the profit of personal and country , and the civilization of material and spirit in order to build up new thought of righteousness and profit. We should take the people's profit called righteousness as the highest valuable aim and criterion, publicize socialist morality(righteousness) and rule out the personal behavior pursuing profit.