The Confucian Idea Of Harmonious Society And Its Value For The Times

Based on the harmony view in philosophy, the thesis analyzes the connotation and essence of a harmonious society by comparing societies at all times and in all lands. By highlighting the protruding phenomenon of the present harmonious ideology, the thesis proposes the re-consideration of the Confucian idea of harmonious society. It comprehensively elaborates the source and connotation of the Confucian idea of harmonious society, and systematically analyzes its theoretical content and value for the times.There are three parts in this thesis:Part One: The source and connotation of the Confucian idea of harmonious society. The proposal of the Confucian idea of harmonious society is not only the human eternal pursuing goal, but also the common value ideology and goal. The Confucian idea of harmonious society has extensive knowledge and profound scholarship, and also the profound historical source and ideological background. Harmonious society ideology is not unique to Confucianism. There was already Taoism, the Yin-Yang school and the Mohist school before Confucius. But the Confucianism contributed the most to the Chinese harmonious society ideology, which synthesized and brought harmonious ideology to the highest development by carrying on the prophets'ideas and absorbing the ideologies of other schools. The Confucian idea of harmonious society is a kind of idea about reconciliation, balance and coordination. The Confucian idea of harmonious society is to reconcile the Yin-Yang in balance, and protrude the integral balance power under the interdependence and inter-permeation. In this ideological system with extensive knowledge and profound scholarship,"Humanity"is the center;"Courtesy"is the form of expression;"the Golden Mean"is the mode of thinking;"Great Harmony"is the ideal society;"Discipline"is the way of realization and"Being kind domestically and being tough aboard"is the greatest value orientation, and"Peace"is not only the methodology, but also the value orientation, and at the same time possesses its philosophical, political, and ethical connotation. In The Confucian...