On Transcending And Contemporary Enlightenment Of Marxist Ideal Personality Theory To Confucian Ideal Personality Thought

Under the realistic context of the New Confucian thoughts having entered China one after another and Sinology Hot in Chinese continent, it is meaningful to explore the transcending of Marxist ideal personality to Confucian ideal personality with the basic theories and methods of Marxism as an ideal position.lt allows us to draw a line with Historical nihilism and Total Westernization in the aspect of the goal constructing in the pursuit of personality certainly, but also can make a clean break with Revivalist that people always advocate blindly.If using the theories and methods of Marxist ideal personality as a research perspective,we admit the obvious contemporary value in Confucian ideal personality,which respects and advocates benevolence and righteousness as the core,and highlights moral self-discipline, focuses on moral consciousness, publicizes altruism,insists that righteousness is more important than profit in conflict between them,and so on. But this ideal personality theory ignores the basic needs of human interests and our freedom to shape personality,weights virtue and lights knowledge.And it is conservative and lack of innovation.These feudal dross must be removed in today’s era.The transcending of Marxist ideal personality to Confucian ideal personality is a must,at least in several dimensions as follows:one is transcending Gentleman personality,which weights righteousness and lights profit, publicizes and anti-profit,to build a new principle in relationship between righteousness and benefit,which adapts to the social objective reality--market economy;The other is transcending personality defects in emphasising too much on Confucian mind while ignoring practice,shaping the courage to practice and innovative personality character;The third is transcending shortcomings in respecting holism while ignoring the individual and character shaping,advocating positive publicity of free individuality and personality realm of comprehensive development;The fourth is transcending the bias between weighting benevolence and lighting wisdom,achieving a true and good and beautiful ideal personality goal in the pursuit of the harmony among truth, goodness and beauty.How to build ideal personality is the central question to cultural construction.Because the modernization of personality is the subject condition for the country’s modernization. We use the theory of Marxist ideal personality as the guide, learn from the best aspects of the traditional Confucian ideal personality thoughts,but also actively discard its dross in constructing the ideal personality,so as to effectively establish the ideal personality pattern which is consistent with the trend of current times.This is an important goal with strategic significance for the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.