The Philosophical Core and Methodology of the Confucian-Mexican Controversy in Pre-Qin

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.326How to use a DOI?

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Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States; Confucian-Mexican Controversy; Concurrent love; Benevolence

Abstract

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, the intervention of the lords and vassals in the sovereign government of the Zhou Tianzi led to a shift in the concept of the Mandate of Heaven away from the Zhou Tianzi as the core and towards morality as the standard. The transferable Mandate of Heaven caused the lords and vassals to reform their taxation and politics in order to compete for supremacy. As a result, a new state order, the concept of Mandate of Heaven, was urgently needed. Both Confucius and Mozi took benevolence as the highest moral standard and devoted themselves to shaping an order that included all social structures. However, Mozi chose to focus on concurrent love, and used the ideas of jiezang, feile, and other cross-liberal ideas as the methodology, and discussed a non-differentiated idea of benevolence. Confucius, on the other hand, took benevolence and love as the core and ritual and music as the methodology to create a morality that values ethics and hierarchy.

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AU  - Yining Wang
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DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - The Philosophical Core and Methodology of the Confucian-Mexican Controversy in Pre-Qin
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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