Collectivist Ideas Of Confucius And The Modern Enlightenment

In BC one thousand years, China, India, Greece and other regions, there have been some pioneering thinking thinkers. Said their vision, set up the tenet, and their respective areas for belong to the development of cultural thoughts in the future, set a direction. For China, Confucius is the respectable pioneer of Confucian ethics. Confucius (551BC-479BC) is the ancestor of Confucianism in China, live in is about to collapse, the feudal system of slavery is on the rise during the spring and autumn period. At the time, power decline and ceremony music bad, he in order to save the nation and the improvement of society, be in a tearing hurry, travel, try to people through the establishment of moral personality and the improvement of the soul, to realize his political ideals, so as to achieve peace. Our country is a country with five thousands years civilization history, has a wealth of cultural traditions, and Confucius of Confucianism in the history of the Chinese nation has a vital role. There are many scholars research about Confucius’ thoughts around the world, involving all aspects of the society, but from the view of the Confucianism of Confucius study of collectivism are few.In this paper, from the perspectives of Confucius thoughts, study of "collectivism thoughts". Confucius life time background for woven, personal thoughts, the collective thoughts of Confucianism and the relationship between them one by one, thus concludes that Confucius is not a selfish man, also not egoist, proved that Confucius is a collectivist. Eventually hope in Confucius’s collectivism under the enlightenment of the thoughts to multivariate collectivism reconstruct, continue to play a collective thoughts for thousands of years in China.The first chapter introduces the research background, research significance and research status at home and abroad, finally points out the innovation of this article.The second chapter mainly is the study of Confucius’ life time background. From Confucius thoughts of economic and political life two aspects to introduce Confucius era background. Research Confucius’ thoughts and behavior, you must know about the era background of Confucius., therefore, must put the time background of Confucius thoughts accords with the practice of history brief explanation and demonstration, to more clearly understand the thoughts of Confucius thoughts about collectivism in the social necessity. Confucius life economic background is the western Chou feudal Lord economy, Confucius’s political system is the feudal patriarchal clan life.The third chapter is the key of the whole paper. By studying Confucius advocates individual ideology, the collective ideology and the relations between them, thus for the collective composition in the Confucianism on the bottom.The fourth chapter discusses the characteristics of Confucius’s collectivism thoughts. Confucius’s collectivism thoughts and other collective thinking is different, it has its own unique characteristics. It mainly reflected in three aspects:first, Confucius considered collectively have levels of multiple interest subjects; Second, Confucius adhere to the concept of multiple collective values; Third, Confucius praise highly the collectivism principle is the doctrine of the mean.The fifth chapter discusses the collectivism ideology of Confucius for us important enlightenment in today’s world. Confucius’s collectivism thoughts is the origin of multiple collectivism thoughts. The enlightenment is obtained from two aspects:The first is to construct collectivism ethics enlightenment. Collectivism is a kind of diversity in multiple interests, value pluralism and collective interests optimization principle of collectivism thoughts, it embodies the multivariate collectivism is collectivism ideology of Confucius’s inheritance and development. As a result, the pluralistic value of collectivism is a kind of multivariate collectivism ethics and interests subject, it hope to absorb western utilitarianism, deontology, individualism, on the basis of the reasonable, building a special normative ethics based on the collective interests, to improve and adhere to our traditional collectivism.The second is by comparing multiple collective socialist ethical system and ethics of western individualism, which can more reflect the superiority of the collectivism in China. Here mainly compared the utilitarianism and deontology, specifically from two aspects of value pluralism and interests subject pluralism.Mainly summarized the significance of carrying forward collectivism. Collectivism can be realized only in socialist conditions, only adhere to the socialist collectivism to survive. Especially in today’s construction of socialist market economy, to carry forward the collective, and in the development of market economy, the formation of a set of adapt to the modern civilization and social development needs of the collectivist value system, make, collectivism and socialism market economy to unify effectively, in order to establish more orderly social order and ethic norm, provide powerful value guidance rules.