A Study On The "Righteousness" Idea Of Dong Zhongshu Thought

Since ancient times, "righteousness" the concept is one of the important concern. Dong Zhongshu was particularly concerned about the concept, not only had a lot of interpretation, but also gave a high evaluation.The concept "righteousness" of Dong Zhongshu came from the concept of pre-Qin and Han Dynasty by the impact of various schools of thought.In the eyes of the pre-Qin thinkers ,the "meaning" of "righteousness" were mostly "should", that was suitable, appropriate and reasonable means. Eastern Han Dynasty,Xu Shen regarding this had also given the full affirmation from the philology angle.The Confucianist emphasized "righteousness" and "kernel","ritual" the union,advocates righteousness heavily light "the advantage", The Mexican daily family activity "the kernel", "righteousness" said that advocated "righteousness", "the advantage" develops simultaneously, and thought that "righteousness" was one kind of social morals; The legalist school was heavy heavily "the advantage", "the law", but light "righteousness"; Taoism advocated that abandons "the kernel", abandoned "righteousness". At the beginning of Han Dynasty, the thought of Jia Yi, Lu Jia were mainly "righteousness" the idea carries on to pre-Qin Confucianist had inherited and developed, "Lvshi Chunqiu", "Huai Nan Zi" the author was to pre-Qin Confucianist, Taoism it "righteousness" the idea had carried on the inheritance which the synthesis allowed temporary credit.Dong Zhongshu had inherited the past worthies "righteousness" namely "suitably" the thought and that developed "righteousness, says suitably in me", stressed that "righteousness" is speaking of "I". "Three cardinal guides and the five permanent members" are Dong Zhongshu's important thoughts, "the righteousness"was one of "the five permanent members". "Three cardinal guides" ethics core is "loyal", "the filial piety", Dong Zhongshu thought that "righteousness" and "loyal", "the filial piety" is both opposes the relations which, and unifies. He also thought that "righteousness" and "the kernel, the ritual, the wisdom, the letter" the incident cross-correlation, depends on each other mutually, supports mutually, constituted the Chinese nation traditional virtues building foundation together."Righteousness advantage view" receives the important question which until now since old times the people paid attention. The Confucianist advocated "the heavy righteousness light advantage"; The legalist school strength led "the expensive advantage inexpensive righteousness"; The Mohist school advocated that "the expensive righteousness still benefitted", namely righteousness, the advantage pay equal attention to; Taoism was clear advocates "righteousness advantage all shed". Dong Zhongshu had mainly inherited pre-Qin Confucianist's righteousness advantage thought that namely "the heavy righteousness light advantage", and based on this also proposed that "righteousness advantage two raise" the thought. In "righteousness" and "law" in the relational question, Dong Zhongshu inherited the predecessor "the law was born in righteousness" the thought that proposed "according to the righteous deed law", "Spring and Autumn Period" decides a lawsuit and so on thought.Dong Zhongshu "righteousness" idea, not only had the development in the connotation to its predecessor thought that moreover also unified with his other thought that had formed some bright characteristics. Such as: Take "the nature three" as the foundation "righteousness" the idea, had "often" and "changes" the characteristic "righteousness" the idea, "the masculine and feminine elements five lines" "righteousness" the idea, but also had "outside the kernel in righteousness" the thought that these enabled Dong Zhongshu "righteousness" the idea to have been different with the predecessor thought characteristic, was "righteousness" the idea inherits in the foundation to the predecessor the development.Dong Zhongshu's thought is broad and profound, "righteousness" the idea is only one of them. In the Dong Zhongshu entire ideology, "righteousness" the idea is playing the very vital role. First, "by righteousness me" the thought is Dong Zhongshu advocated the mind in the right way, practices moral culture important basis. Next, Dong Zhongshu advocated that "is friendly by Germany" governs the people, its final goal is An Min, the advantage people, maintains social the stability. But he "by righteousness me" the thought is not only An Min's prerequisite, may also pass the ruler "the body to be positive", but "favorable people". Once more, Dong Zhongshu thought "righteousness" the idea is the people morals practice behavior criterion, adopted "Spring and Autumn Period" decides a lawsuit form, enables its legal thought to practice, and it "righteousness" regarded as "Spring and Autumn Period" "the humanity", embarked by this practices him the Confucianist to be ideal.Not only in general, Dong Zhongshu had inherited in the predecessor thought "righteousness" the idea thought essence, moreover expanded "righteousness" the idea extension, had entrusted with "righteousness" the idea "the masculine and feminine elements five lines" the characteristic, emphasized "righteousness" the idea "often" and "changes", had highlighted "Spring and Autumn Period" the principle of righteousness in the government country influential role.