Heaven And Man, The Evolution Of The Confucian System Of Thought Formation Prior To The Spring And Autumn

The relationship between heaven and human is an important proposition in Chinese traditional philosophy issues. Its development have promoted the formation of our traditional culture, and it is a kind of motivity in the traditional culture's evolvement. It has been played a very important role in social life and people's mind in the rudimentary time of our traditional culture.By the methods of history and comparative, based on the relative knowledge of archaeology and anthropology, and absord the views of the former scholars, the aim of this article is try to elaborate and demonstrate systematicly the development of the relationship between the heaven and human, and the effects that it had have on the formation of the thought of Confucius. It will point out the primary stages of the development of the ealier relationship between the heaven and human, and the development will lead to the formation of Confucius'thoughts. So we will get a new view about the Confucius's thought and the relationship between the heaven and human, and in the future, our Chinese civilization will "provide a new threshold for the human's culture."Directed by the Materialist of Marxism, on the ground of the different methods and attitudes that people have on Gods, the article divide the views that people have on Gods innto different stages. And it will discuss the generation and development of some ideas like the Witchcraft, vitual and morality, also it will argument the effects that the geographic environment method have on the different of the culture between Shang and Zhou.The article can divided into six chapters:Chapter one is the preface, including the writing backgroung, the research actuality and the research thread and method.Chapter two and three is discuss the relationship between the heaven and human in primitive age and three dynasties. Including the following ideas;(1):Discuss the process that ancient people recognize the nature and society, namely the development stages of the relationship between the heaven and human, the sensory stage, the primary sentimental stage, the sentimental sacrifice stage, the rational sacrifice stage. At last, Confucius finished the recognization that people have on themselves, which promote our life to a perfect stage. All the stages are reveal the innocence of people's heart. (2):Witchcraft is a series of vitual which can make people's heart calmly by oppress, enforce, and immitate, and they will make people realize the actual world, and set up the order between the heaven and earth.(3):The differences of geographic environment and existent methods between Shang and Zhou are the fundamental reasons of their cultural differences. Shang dynasty arise at the easten coastal areas, where are lots of forest and birds and animals, so they can live by nomad and hunt. Zhou dynasty arise beside Jing and Wei river, they live by agriculture. These geographic differences eventually lead to the cultural differences.Chapter four is discuss the sources of ealier thoughts of Confucius. The one is the change of heaven destiny, "The heaven don't change, and the destiny don't change." The heaven have changed from will to order from Shang to Zhou, and the culture also have changed from sensory stage to rational stage. This is a thinking threshold of Confucius thought. The other is discuss the generate and development status of vitual and morality.Chapter five is the realizations of the generation and development of Confucius's thought, point out that the heaven destiny is do their own responsibility, improve theirselves in the interactive of self and society, which are the basis of Confucius's thought.Chapter six is the conclusion of the article, it will summary the ideas of the article, and simply argue the inner contradictions in Confucius's thought.