Confucius’ Conception On Life And Death

Everyone has different life. But people who live in the world all will go to die which are same in some degree. As a result of this common ground, different individuals are universalized. Confucius has made lives unitary by his "ren". People communicate on the height of life through "love", and then affirm life and respect life. Confucius resolves the conflict between real life and life by the way of "ren", through "the ritual" restrains the individual desire, make people throw more attention to the unitary life, rather than in real life. In the process of tending to "ren", make the personality of individual into universality and eventually get eternal.Confucius reflect the value of life by the realization of "tao", uphold "tao" whether good time or bad. Affirm the leading role of people in practice. Gentlemen are the templates of individual life who are judged by moral. The right that people can show the value of their life is to be gained to all individual life, by the result of the promotion of moral honesty. The right is no longer the nobles of the privileged. Confucius puts forward "accomplish in orderly world, otherwise be hidden", measure the value of life and death in the process of receiving the tao, both must have the fearless spirit of dedicating to tao, and the wisdom of select life and death.On one hand, Confucius awe the heaven, recognize the objectivity and inevitability of destiny; on the other hand,"know can not succeed", not only because of excavation in people, but also based on the persistence of the pursuit of life. Without the cognition of death people can not resolve problems in life. In Confucius’ view, everyone has to face death, but different people has different legacy value to others when they dead. About supernatural being, Confucius did not deny spirits and serve ghosts and gods carefully. He argued that the principium of life and death are same. If you want to know something about death, you must recognize life first.Life and death are closely linked, the two forms a complete life. The world is endless, but the life is short. Therefore, Confucius put his sights on "life", and more focus on how to interpret the limited life. He is not afraid of death. His view has important implications for people in real life. People have emptiness spiritual and confused when facing multiple value choice and loss himself can get a lot of enlightenment from Confucius’positive attitude towards life and value of life. It also provides valuable resources of thought for us to solve the problem of life and death in modern society.