From"Governing Music with Benevolence"to"Educating People with Music":Confucius'Discussion on the Evolution Level of"Music"
"Governing music with benevolence","maintaining orthodoxy with music"and"educating people with music"constitute the three aspects of grand Confucius'music way.In order to correct music,Confucius takes"benevolence"as the foundation and emphasizes the inner determining effect of"benevolence"on music,and advocates returning to the moral and emotional nature of music and exploring the moral basis of music.Confucius further uses rite and music activities to allude to the social order,urging all classes of society to"deny selves and return to propriety"and to conform to the right way,making music give play to the role of recovering and stabilizing the social order,and realizing the social ideal of"maintaining orthodoxy with music".Confucius also thinks that elegant music can civilize customs,and achieve the purpose of governing the country and making people harmonious with its educating people.
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