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What is the thought of benevolence?
Benevolence is the hope and practice of the common development of mankind. Benevolence thought is one of the flags of China's ancient humanitarian thought. Ren's thought was put forward as early as Yao, Shun and Yu, and was later discussed by Yi Yin, Guan Zhong and others. Confucius initiated mass education and Confucianism, and inherited the ideas of the sages, among which the idea of benevolence was one, which was specially promoted and developed by Mencius. However, Confucius and Mencius' thought of benevolence is based on the autocratic patriarchal hierarchy, which is not a real thought of benevolence. Mozi, who was contemporary with Confucius, put forward the idea of equality and benevolence ~ universal love; Hui Shi also put forward the idea of universal love beyond human beings ~ the idea of universal love for all things and the integration of heaven and earth; Finally, Xunzi comprehensively discussed the idea of benevolence with strict logic and threshold, put forward that benevolence can be divided into the primitive benevolence of human equality and the idea of transcending human fraternity, and proved that benevolence is not human nature, but the law of the common road of human beings created by understanding the meaning between man and nature-human virtue, refining, logic, philosophy and wisdom of benevolence. Due to the exclusive admiration of cool law in the Qin Dynasty, books were burned, which basically burned the pre-Qin documents, and many ideas were difficult to be fully presented and passed down. However, in the Han, Xin, Ming and Qing Dynasties, Confucianism was the dominant ideology. Wei, Jin, Six Dynasties, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, Liao, Song, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism were juxtaposed as the three mainstream thoughts (these three times were not only Confucianism, but metaphysics, Taoism, Xun, Confucianism and Buddhism coexisted, and the Song Dynasty also revived and innovated Yi-ology, and founded Neo-Confucianism. Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism are the three mainstream schools that run through the three periods. Confucianism and rulers forged the inheritance system of Confucian orthodoxy and authority, which led many people to mistakenly think that Confucius was the first person to put forward the idea of benevolence.