18E10 精神决赛张贤睿

In fact, China's society has never been a religious society in a strict sense. Although polytheism exists from ancient times to present, it has never been strictly incorporated into the mainstream ideology. The clan-centered agricultural society emphasizes the belief of blood inheritance. We worship our ancestors, which is the source of our lives. We value our children, which is the successor of our lives. Imagination of the past and the future is portrayed in Confucian culture as a more contemporary family ethic concept - the meaning of life lies not in whether an individual belongs to heaven or hell after death, but in the special position of the family which is in endless continuity. Therefore, according to Gu Hongming, Confucianism is roughly between Platonic philosophy and real religion. "For morality, the people do not have enough wisdom to understand them as ideas, nor enough personality to strictly follow them as laws. For this reason, the philosophy and morality taught by Plato, Aristotle and Herbert Spencer are only valuable to scholars." The morality of Platonic philosophy is too high for the masses, and the morality in religious sense still needs the help of personalized God image. Only Confucianism does not need additional assumptions, it effectively constructs a set of laws to maintain the stability of the country and the family, which is a brilliant creation of the Chinese people.