The Study Of Self-cultivation Theory Of Confucius And Its Modern Value

The article mainly analyzes the connotations of Self-cultivation Theory in Book of Documents,The Tao Te Ching,Chuang Tzu:Tianxia and The Analects of Confucius from the perspective of etymology.Beside,the article systematically explores what is "cultivation" in those above Chinese classics from the aspects of "simple individual","individual in family","individual in society" and "individual in a country" and concludes that "cultivation" is not only refer to a kind of smart and lofty behavour or thoughts,but also a kind of unique consciousness.Because of the unique consciousness,human can be one of the elements of the threefold harmony——heaven,earth,and man.Put the study Self-cultivation Theory of harmonious and steady relationship between heaven and human.What's more,the article even trys to pxplain the meaning of "self-cultivation",which is a kind of harmonious and steady relationship between heaven and human.No matter which schools the sages belongs to——Confucian or Taoism,as long as they have the conciousness of self-cultivation,they can be the representative of heaven or Tao.The sage who has the quality of self-cultivation,are capable to understand the laws of the world and apply their thoughts to the governance of country.Some sages would prefer to rule the country by virtue,others would like to govern the country by non-interference.These two kind of governing philosophy are both interlinked to the nature of heaven and earth.The Wisdom of Self-cultivation mainly focuses on the cultivation of individuals in his or her daily life through the harmonious relationship between heaven and human and helping human beings to makes their fame matches the reality.Confucious' s "wisdom of self-cultivation" is exactly committed to what the paper has mentioned before,which aims to teach the ordinary people to restrict themselves to the standard of Ren and Li and help them to bocome sages gradually and finally make contributions to the harmony between heaven and man.This paper on the one hand is supposed to let more people realize that "the wisdom of self-cultivation" will be one of the right remedy for the problem of moral deficiency in the future citizen's moral building project,and on the other hand the paper also aims at exploring the ways of modernization of our traditional culture.