Confucius’ View Of Life And Death And Its Value Of The Times

Life and death are the most important parts of life and the support and carrier of all the meanings of life.In the early days,people worshiped life and feared death.With the continuous development of people’s cognitive ability,in the Yin and Shang Dynasties,due to the emergence of primitive religion,the concept of ghosts and gods prevailed,and people’s understanding of life and death focused on religious color,which made the understanding of life and death more mysterious.In the Western Zhou Dynasty,the core proposition of theocratic politics,the idea of "morality for heaven",appeared.People’s understanding of life and death gradually changed from mystification to moralization,that is,more attention was paid to human’s own moral problems.This is a landmark philosophical discussion of the transition from human’s object consciousness to self-consciousness,which is also the objective manifestation of human’s rational understanding of life and death.In the spring and Autumn period,with the further development of human’s understanding of rationality,a number of early Chinese thinkers came into being,of which Confucius was one.Starting from humanism,Confucius theorized,systematized and philosophized the moral,political,religious and other traditional cultures of Xia,Shang and Zhou dynasties,and gradually formed a complete ideological system.Confucius took "benevolence" as the core,and put human life into the whole space-time coordinate of human development.That is to say,from the moral sense,he paid attention to the development of individual life and the continuation of human group life,so that human beings are no longer a lonely and pitiful "finite body" and "single crystal" in the universe.Confucius put the concept of life and death into the norms of rites to examine,through the form of rites,return to the origin of heaven,understand the endless life in the rites,and show the ritual sense and dignity of limited individual life.Confucius’ view of life and death is also dominated by the idea of destiny,but he broke through the shackles of "religious fanaticism" on the issue of life and death,and looked at life from the endless growth of the universe.Confucius’ view of life and death also pursues the goal of shaping the ideal personality.He thinks that people should constantly strive for self-improvement and self-discipline,and that virtue should be combined with heaven and earth to practice the virtue value of life.On the whole,Confucius’ view of life and death shows duality in the understanding of ghosts and gods.He pays attention to the life on this shore,shows his humanistic feelings for life,values the moral cultivation function of funeral,and tends to kill himself to become benevolent.Confucius’ view of life and death is a product of the times,a shining "Pearl" in the philosophy of life and death in the spring and Autumn period,and a brilliant "exotic flower" in the excellent traditional culture.Confucius’ rational understanding of the value of life not only has an important influence on later thinkers’ concern about life and death,the interpretation of the meaning of life and the elaboration of life philosophy,but also has an important enlightening significance for contemporary life education,the reconstruction of life value and the framework of life philosophy.