The Wisdom Of Life And Death In Realistic Concern

Life and death is the eternal topic in the history of philosophy in China and abroad.The pre-Qin Confucian,arising from the social unrest of the Chunqiu period and Warring States period,paying much attention to the life.With much courage and strong sense of social responsibility,Confucians put forward the life-death viewpoint,which cherishing your health,understanding your death,attaching great importance to the Moral.The life-death viewpoint of Confucians propels the formation and development of the Chinese traditional Outlook on life and death.Confucius,Mencius and Xunzi ’s rich thoughts in the pre-Qin Confucianism all permeate with profound insights about life and death,which is of great significance for solving the life puzzles and survival pressure of contemporary people.Confucianism based on the "benevolence" as the core of the ideological system,focusing on human real life.They associated the life and death issues with the reality of human relations in the daily life,showing the death wisdom with strong realistic concern.The Confucian view of life and death in pre-Qin Dynasty has views of the inevitability,the reality,and the transcendence of life and death.The Confucians,who basing itself on the theory premise that how can you know death before you know life,stressing the importance of knowing and respecting life.Their life attitudes include the connotation of respecting life,loving life and understanding the moral.Confucius emphasizes the life of humans is irreversible,and it is the most important matter of life to cherish our life.Confucius and Mencius and Xunzi all emphasizes that life is the most expensive issue,and they are against the meaningless sacrifice,and they attach great importance to health.The essence of Moral is Life.The pre-Qin Confucianism grasps the heaven and humanity,to promote the moral responsibility,respecting for righteousness and justice,showing the highlighting respect and love for life.Their death views contain two aspects that is calm and relax and not afraid of the death.In a sense,Human life has a certain regularity,and it is inevitable.The pre-Qin Confucianism has a sane and rational understanding of the Fate,even in the face of helpless life,they has adopted a sensible attitude,and advise people to constantly improve their own to achieve themselves.Confucian shows a positive attitude towards death,and advocates that humans should enjoy their life and have a positive attitude of death.Trying to devote their life and energy to the search for the morality,the righteousness and justice,and to get the immortality in the pursuit of spiritual accomplishment.Different from Taoist view of life by way of death,the pre-Qin Confucian study life from life to death,and they pay more attention to do something when they can enjoy their life.The pre-Qin Confucianism advocated us manage life by rites and propriety.Their ritual life mainly to cultivate one’s morality,improve education,and perfect their lives.On the other hand,treating people with courtesy mainly includes loving parents,being polite to friends and governing the country with etiquette.Its ritual death is mainly manifested in the funeral ritual,and in the mourning,burial,sacrifice after one’s death,it is embodied in the rich etiquette connotation.In addition,there are obvious functional links behind the vision of life and death which mainly refer to the practical function of the moral education and the maintenance of social order.In the face of limited life,the pre-Qin Confucianism explored a series of ways to transcend life and death,such as performing the meritorious deeds and getting great achievements,producing the offspring and making descendants immortally,mixing their own with limitless universe together and so on.Meanwhile,the Confucian strives to achieve the transcendence of life and death through various forms of effort.To be honest,Confucian vision of life and death inevitably has certain limitations and theoretical flaws.However,this does not prevent its modern value.In fact,pre-Qin Confucian wisdom of life and death has rich connotation and it undoubtedly has great theoretical and practical significance of guiding of life-death viewpoint who live in modern society.Besides,it has meaningful value to improve the quality of life,to arrange life plan,and to achieve life ideals.