The Contemporary Value Of Confucian Benevolence Thought——Based On The Investigation Of The Text Of The Analects

Ideological and political education works on the ideological study of people,its core is focus on human morality and faith.Ideological and political education's aim is solve the problem and confusion of Chinese moral and faith,this work must be rooted in the traditional Chinese culture.In Chinese long history,there were various ideological which based on God,land and common sense had gone though agitation and collision,in the result,forming tradition cultural based on Confucian thought eventually."The Analects" is the expression of original Confucianism,focusing on benevolence as the center,constructing a whole values and theory system with moral beliefs such as filial piety,loyalty,faith,righteousness,harmonious,forgiveness and so on.This ideological system have enormous affect on the Chinese civilization for five thousand years and keeping sustained prosperity,leading the civilization trend in post-modern world.It contains many precious thoughts of modernity.The internal unification relationship between “benevolence” and “people” the the base core of our Confucianism thought system.The core of benevolence is "people",the study of benevolence is study on people essentially." Benevolence is the moral standards of people's social behavior,at the same time,"people" has its own objectivity,subjectivity and individual character relating to benevolence.This two factors interacted each other throughout the benevolence.Unfortunately,these modern characteristic in this ideological system is covered by the traditional culture,especially the arithmetic of structure of traditional benevolence,there is no time delay to proceed a creative transformation.Confucius' s "benevolence" thought has the reference value for the contemporary society,enriching the theory of Ideological and political education,boosting the socialist core values,and resolving the modernity's negative effect.This benevolence thought will help this ideological and political education work rooting deeper in the excellent traditional culture,promoting the modernization of traditional culture and resolving value confusion during the period of social transformation,making for the Chinese civilization development in the future.