Pocitical Philosophy Properties of the Traditional Confucianism --A Historical Analysis
The Confucianism is a kind of Political Philosophy from the beginning. It serves the political society, and takes the benevolent ideal as its ideal society. The nature as a Political Philosophy determines the changeable feature of Confucianism. It changes itself to adapt the society historically. In this paper, we will show the Confucianism as a Political Philosophy historically by its three stages, original Confucianism, Confucianism in Han Dynasty, and the Neo-Confucianism.
Traditional confucianismPolitical philosophy,Benevolent ideal