On The Subjectivity Of Confucian Ideal Personality In Pre - Qin Period

Confucian culture as the dominant ideology of feudal society of China, has been affecting the Chinese way of thinking, standardizing the behavior of the Chinese people, and shaping the character of the Chinese nation. The pre-Qin Confucianism was first founded by Confucius, and after the development of the mencius and xunzi, basic design was finalized. Throughout the pre-Qin Confucians’ thought, its core is about the design of ideal personality and shape, the so-called "inside the saint outside the king". The process of the construction of the pre-Qin Confucian ideal personality, is people’s subject consciousness awakening and gradually processing. This is decided by the social environment at that time: at the Spring and Autumn period, the economic, political, and social changed. The social ideology was also changed.People’s subjective consciousness continuously outstanded. Represented by Confucian gentry class was growing. Starting from the Confucius, human had developed clear individual consciousness, then by mencius and xun zi, finally realized the complete awakening of the human subject consciousness.This paper would want to start from the aspects of subjectivity to specific analysis the pattern design of ideal personality of the pre-Qin Confucianism, especially the Confucius, mencius and xunzi to reveal personal subjective consciousness in terms of ideal personality of the independent choice and creation. This article mainly discusses from four aspects: The first part, introduces Confucius’ pursuit of ideal personality. Before talking Confucius’ ideal personality model, briefly introduces the process of men’s subject consciousness awakening: Primitive society, the subject consciousness of the people was not clear. At Shang Dynasty, people’s subjective consciousness was also very lack. The western society, people began to have group consciousness, but the bondage of rites to make personal as the main body of the individual consciousness also did not wake up. Confucius began to have clear human subject consciousness, and his ideal personality model was put forward. The second part, mencius inherited Confucius’ theory and his ideal personality model was put forward. The ideal personality also highlighted the mencius of the subject consciousness. While mencius’ theory of goodness was found as his ideal personality.The third part, xunzi developed the Confucius’ s theory of "king outside", and put forward his ideal personality model- the adult. Unlike mencius, xunzi thought the human nature was evil, but learning could change humans’ nature. On the view of nature and man, xunzi was beyonded Confucius and mencius, making him greatly in the development of the subject consciousness. The fourth part, briefly discusses the the value of pre-Qin Confucian ideal personality in today’s society. In the cultivation of moral quality, the social responsibility of national consciousness and innovation consciousness, the pre-qin Confucianism has played a positive role.