The Breakthrough Of The Ethical Relationship Between Monarch And Secretary In “ming To Visit Record”

The ethical relationship between monarch and secretary is a pair of special and important ethical relationship in ancient China. It decides the politics of a country, and the development of the society and people’s livelihood. Since the ethical relationship between monarch and secretary produces, there is a corresponding thought and theory.With the passage of time, the theory of the ethical relationship between monarch and secretary gets mature and perfect increasingly. In the Ming dynasty, the ethical relationship between monarch and secretary turns rigid gradually, but the thought and theory have arrived at a peak.“Ming to Visit Record” is the crystallization of Huang Zongxi’s thoughts, and it’s also the microcosm of the Ming dynasty society. The thoughts of the ethical relationship between monarch and secretary are the essence of the book. It riches in strong democracy color, and has the enlightenment significance of history. Huang Zongxi stands in the angle of the public, he uses people’s selfishness as the starting point and the returning point of his thoughts, and he planned to deconstruct and reconstruct the social system. “Ming to Visit Record” points out that the monarch and secretary is set for people, and secretary adheres to the principle, not listen to monarch. He pays attention to the equality of personality between monarch and secretary, requires monarch and secretary to separate the power and govern together. These strong thoughts and opinions are the breakthrough to the traditional view between monarch and secretary.Today, the ethical relationship between monarch and secretary already does not exist, but from the point of view of order management, the thought and theory between monarch and secretary also have enlightening and inspiring effects on the social management and stable order. From the organizational system of modern stand dominance—Bureaucracy, we can find that it distributes power rationally and legally,and follows and relys on rules and regulations forcibly and completely. These are also the heart of Huang’s thoughts between monarch and secretary. So Huang’s thoughts between monarch and secretary are worth learning and using for reference.