On Confucius' View Of Destiny And Spirit

Confucius is a pioneer of Chinese Confucian culture, and its ideas have built the system of the mainstream value judgment of the Chinese nation. So far, people have studied further from the perspective of a variety of different areas of Confucius’ thought, and the mandate of heaven spiri’s of Confucius’ thought, has long been a concern for people but opinions vary.The mandate of heaven and ghosts and gods of Confucius’thought, is the extension and the development of life and death. If can understand "The mandate of heaven and ghosts and gods" problem, human beings can then show the meaning of "life", the study of Confucius’ concept of the mandate of heaven ghosts and gods in real life has a great significance. In view of this, this article selects the "Confucius’ concept of the mandate of heaven ghosts and gods" as the content to discuss in this paper.Framework of this paper is mainly divided into three parts:The first part, is on the investigation to the Confucian’ concept of the mandate of heaven and ghosts and gods era background; The second part, detailed analysis of Confucius’ view of destiny, it is concluded that Confucius’ idea of the "heaven" is a kind of state, it is in the "benevolence","heaven" the complete connotation is "the objective laws of outer and inner spiritual unity"; The third part, detailed analysis of Confucius’ view of ghosts and gods, it is concluded that Confucius’ view of ghosts and gods is the double implementation of cultural and political functions, Confucius deeply faith the mandate of heaven, as for the problem of ghosts and gods to himself don’t know, he don’t blindly follow superstitions, also not simple denial, but "away", not as a probe, and guide people from concerns about ghosts and gods lo focus on real life.Confucius’ view of destiny and the concept of ghosts and gods, is closely connected with the political ideal of Confucius, and the destiny view focuses on spiritual, for Confucius to continue insist; Ghosts and gods outlook, focused more on moral practice which made Confucius in the real world as a refuge. Destiny view and view of ghosts and gods both supply each other, and together help Confucius to pursuit his highest moral realm.Confucius’ view of destiny and the ghosts and gods outlook, performing on the outlook on life, its breaking the heaven’s supremacy of the divine, and suspending ghosts and gods to set the value of life on the obtaining benevolence and morals, will show the traditional spirits of destiny and ghosts and gods, the essence of which is to "self mastery" affirmation and respect, and make the person gaining some sort of equilibrium in the pursuit of personality. This is the breakthrough and liberation of benighted religious ideas, and is found to the person’s value, that reflects the respect for the people and the awakening for human nature.Confucius’ view of destiny and ghosts and gods outlook, are not primarily about personal beliefs, but about social function. They are used to complete the construction and coupling of social.