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What is the modern significance of Confucius and Mencius' thought?
The modern significance of Confucius and Mencius' thought is as follows:

1, "Benevolent people love others" is the highest realm in dealing with interpersonal relationships, which is helpful to improve the national moral level, purify the social atmosphere, establish a good social atmosphere and build a civilized and progressive society.

2. Helping the people, benefiting the people, enriching the people and enriching the people are the promises that governments of different countries and different social systems must make to the people in today's society, and it is also an important content for the China * * * production party to lead the people throughout the country to build socialism. Therefore, Confucius and Mencius' economic "benevolence" thought: nurturing the people, benefiting the people and enriching the people still has positive practical significance for today's economic development.

3. Advocating the rule of virtue, paying attention to the people, caring about their sufferings and seeking welfare for the people are interlinked with the purpose of "serving the people" of China * * * Production Party, which is helpful to improve the relationship between the party and the masses and enhance the cohesion of the whole society, and has positive practical significance for implementing the spirit of "ruling the country by law and ruling the country by virtue" put forward by Comrade Jiang Zemin.

The important social influence of Confucianism's expanding information thought lies in that it created a complete set of theoretical thought system for the feudal ruling class to govern the country and society, and enabled the ruling class in China to successfully apply it to the practice of governing the country in China, and gained a glorious history of human development in which the feudal society ruled China for more than two thousand years.

This is unprecedented in the history of the development of human society all over the world. It is also the foundation for the Chinese nation to stand in the world before, now and in the future.

The essence of Confucianism is not its theory of governing the country, but the feudal system is only the ideological shell of feudal society, and the essence of Confucianism lies in its social ethics. It was the feudal social ethics that standardized people's behavior in real life, using popular language-the highly expected moral consciousness from the national ruling class.

Let farmers become slaves of social moral thoughts, and this feudal ethics, as the core of social consciousness of the superstructure of the feudal ruling class, has the widest influence on the mass base of governing society, thus achieving the ideal effect of dual governance of the state and society.

This ethical thought developed to Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory, which were mastered and created by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, the representatives of Marxism in China, and was applied to the socialist revolution and socialist construction in China, and achieved great success that attracted worldwide attention.

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