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A Research Into Mencius' Ideology Of Political Ethics

Posted on:2008-11-12Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L GeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2166360215968956Subject:Ethics
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Mencius is a famous Chinese ancient thinker and philosopher. And he is also one of the most important inherits of Confucianism that Confucius founds. It is different from the legal politics of the West that Chinese traditional Confucianism is a culture of ethical politics, which binds ethic and politics together and serves as the main characteristic of the traditional culture of China. This special theory originated from Confucius, and it was enriched by Mencius and Shomcius to reveal its embodiment from ethic and politics, and was concluded by Dong Zhongshu who merged ethics and politics in accordance eventually. Mencius played the important role in the construction of the theory. On the basis of Confucius' theory, he gave politics an ethic annotation and influenced later thinker profoundly. His Benevolence Government based on Man's good nature at birth connected ethic with politics spontaneously and demonstrated his wide-ranging political order. Now, in the new time of our country's moral reconstruction, especially in the course of the construction of the socialism harmonious society, the research of Mencius' ideology still can provide the thought reference for the moral politics and political civilization.This article focuses the question which will relate to the Mencius politics ethics thought core - rulers and the ministers, It analyses the historical conditions and the background of this special thought and discusses its ethical connotation from the connection of ethic and politics. It wants to give Mencius and objective appraisal by probing into Mencius's way of thinking and prove the enlightenment for the moral reconstruction and the political civilization construction of the realistic society.
Keywords/Search Tags:political ethics, benevolent rule, benevolence government
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