"The Analects" Political Ethics Research

As an important Confucian classics,The Analects of Confucius,records every word and deed of Confucius and his followers.It is compiled by Confucius' disciples and their followers,and contains a wealth of philosophical thoughts.It is precisely because of this feature of The Analects that it provides many possible perspectives for later scholars to study The Analects.This article intends to study the related thoughts of the Analects from the perspective of political ethics.First of all,this article obtains from the background of the times in which Confucius lived,the decline of the Zhou dynasty weakened the position of Zhou Dominate the world,which reflected that the "Zhou Li",which maintained the social order at the political and ethical level,lost its original function and performance In the social level is the ethical disorder,all sorts of things do not conform to ethics and morality after another,under such circumstances,Confucius hopes that the social operation can return to the track of Zhou Li,so we can say that the Analects of Confucius reflects the political ethics The idea is that Confucius came up on the basis of seeing the social disorder.In the Analects,Confucius demonstrated that the rational and orderly basis for political ethics is based on "heaven and human".This is the philosophical basis of political ethics.The core idea of The Analects is "benevolence" and "courtesy." Both of these are also the pillars of political ethics thought.The Analects of Confucius thought that the implementation of benevolence can follow the order of filial piety-letter-loyalty from the home extended to everyone's will be implemented in the governance of the country,so the level of the congenital characteristic.And this is the appropriate level to maintain the "ritual" society,"benevolence" and "propriety" indivisible constitute the "Analects of Confucius" political ethics core viewpoint.Analyzing the political ethics in the Analects,it is not difficult to find that its political ethics thought originated more than two thousand years ago,but as an excellent ideological resource,it still has some inspiration and reference significance for modern society.Therefore,we must adhere to the historical materialism position of "taking the essence and removing the dross",and derive the nutrients from it to serve today's socialist modernization.