How to evaluate Confucius' Confucianism?
The Guiding Significance of Confucianism to the Development of Contemporary Society (1) Mr. Yang Zhenning, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Education, once predicted that the scientific and technological development of China will advance by leaps and bounds in the 2/kloc-0 century, which depends on four favorable factors: strong economic strength, the determination of policy makers, a large number of young talents and good traditions. Traditionally, Yang Zhenning attached great importance to the far-reaching influence of Confucianism initiated by Confucius in education. As we all know, Confucius attached great importance to education and put forward many important educational ideas: teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, learning from each other's strengths, combining learning with thinking, attaching importance to practice, and learning to be excellent to be an official ... Some of these ideas are even more prominent today. For example, his teaching thought of enriching the people is almost an ancient version of the policy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and improving the quality of the people. [1] [2] [] [] For another example, in the modern education rising in the west, technical education and vocational education are the most important contents, while moral education and personality education are generally ignored, resulting in people's instrumentalization and materialization. Confucius' educational thought of having both ability and political integrity and paying equal attention to morality and intelligence can make up for its bias to some extent. (2) The economy is driven by the motive of pursuing maximum benefits. Traditional western management thought emphasizes high efficiency and standardization. Under this system, man is only regarded as a link or a working procedure in the whole production process, or just a part of a huge and complicated money-making machine, and his life and rights can not be sincerely and comprehensively concerned by enterprise managers. On the contrary, the basic idea of Confucian management thought is "people-oriented", which truly loves and cares about people, not just using and controlling people. This makes the producers have a sense of belonging to the enterprise, and the internal cohesion and external competitiveness of the enterprise are also enhanced by the loyal dedication of the producers to the "home". In the words of a Japanese enterprise giant, the management mode of Confucianism is: holding an abacus in one hand and the Analects of Confucius in the other. The basic spirit of Confucian management thought is most comprehensively reflected in Confucian businessmen. Its business purpose is to learn from others' strengths and benefit others' interests, its business principle is people-oriented and people love it, its business ethics is justice-oriented, honesty-oriented, its business characteristics are learning, attaching importance to education and doing business with wisdom, and its business method is harmony. All this is the creative application of Confucius thought in modern economic life. (3) Politics There are two major trends in the world today. One is that with the progress of science and technology and the expansion of economic globalization, people are increasingly closely linked in a "global village". The other is that conflicts and contradictions between certain ethnic groups and countries seem to be expanding and intensifying, and the ghosts of imperialism, nationalism and nationalism are still wandering around. In the future world, what kind of political ethics should countries follow to make our planet safe? 1988, two-thirds of the world's Nobel Prize winners issued a declaration in Paris, saying that "if human beings want to survive in the 2 1 century, they must look back on 2500 and learn from Confucius". Confucius' benevolent "loyalty and forgiveness" should be the core value of mutual respect and peaceful coexistence among all ethnic groups and countries in the world today. "Harmony without difference" advocated by Confucius should be the basic principle to overcome "western centralism" and "chauvinism of great powers" and realize the coexistence of cultural diversity, the common development of nationalities and the common prosperity of the country. Huntington's "clash of civilizations" should not be a realistic excuse for discrimination and power, and Fukuyama's "end of history" is not enough to become a monistic fate for the future development of mankind. Only by completely abandoning the malicious Darwinian western political thinking, taking "don't do to others what you don't want others" and "stand up for yourself and achieve what you want" as the minimum consensus in world political life, and treating other countries and nations with Confucius' kind eyes, can we realize a "well-behaved" Datong society.