The Impact Of Confucian Ethics On The Chinese Ancient Official Administration Law

On the Comparative law culture angle of view, the Chinese traditional law culture failed into the same category of ethics-law culture, this is main difference legal concepts between ancient China and ancient western . The ancient official administration law is an important component of Chinese traditional law. Confucian ethics impacted on the official administration law very deeply ,it is the concentrated expression of ethic assimilation. The Chinese traditional law is ethical. Ethical character of official administration law embodied in the many aspects, for example, filial piety as a criterion to select officials, moral standards as a criterion to examine officials, severely punishing the not filial piety officials, restricting power by moral, Attaching importance to moral Accomplishment of officials and protecting officials legal privilege and so on. Rational factors of Confucian ethics, the promotion of political power, the value of the moral position of human being, the base of small-scale peasant economy, the patriarchal social structure, all the above factors are comprehensive reasons about the ethical character of Chinese ancient official administration law. Under the influence of Confucian ethics, both positive aspects and negative aspects coexisted in the Chinese ancient official administration law. About the official administration law, there are many disadvantages, such as ,excessive emphasis on the role of ethics, system construction lagging behind, family ideology, the sense of social hierarchy, the excessive pursuit of power. However, attaching importance to moral development of officials, exploration for ethics restrictions of power, the officials superfamily feelings, the thought of advocating capable people, all of these still demonstrate the wisdom of the management of officials in contemporary. The wisdom is conducive for perfecting Chinese ethics administrative law.