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Realization of name and righteousness—and the confusion and appearance of Confucianism’s concept of rights
Author: Chi Dongfeng (Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Huadong Teacher Fan and China Institute of Modern Thought and Civilization)
Source: “Anhui Major” (Philosophy and Social Science Edition) 2021 Issue 1
Abstract: Speaking of the general nature of righteousness, the concept of “responsible” should be regarded as the basic discussion area of righteousness. To trace the root of the origin, the Chinese legitimate theory laid by Zhou Gong only considers the problem of giving someone “responsible” to his “responsible” under the conditions of solving the situation of who “responsible” the whole country. The Eastern legitimate theory is the opposite. This difference determines the idea of rights that appeared early in the East and never raised in China. As for the latter, Confucian theory of correcting names and doctrines can be regarded as a specific Chinese rationale. Research on the issue of correcting names and teachings can be found that on the one hand, the basic characteristic of traditional Confucian righteous theory is a format that corrects people and is dedicated to common people. This format determines why the concept of rights is obscure in Confucianism. On the other hand, the condition of traditional Confucianism is to correct the concept and reality of the two parts of people and commoners. Therefore, when the dual structure of the righteous and common people gradually evolved into the national structure, Confucian righteous thoughts also needed to change from the righteous people to the common people to the ordinary people to a theoretical format that was important for the people to be their own. The purpose of this change means the emergence of the concept of rights.
Keywords: correct name; right; right; right; right; correct person; common people
There are two discussions under the name of “China’s Righteous Discussion” Views: First, the strong apology for social justice and justice that has emerged in the 1950s and 1960s of the 20th century, and the political philosophy trend marked by Rors’ “On the Righteousness”; second, the civilization reflection and traditional civilization rejuvenation movement of Chinese society since the 1980s of the 20th century. In this context, the Chinese academic community has three stages of participation in the rightful problem: the late period is important to explore the relationship between “righteousness” and “justice” from the lexicon source; the comparison of the concepts of medium-term and Chinese and Western righteousness; and discussions on the so-called “Chinese righteousness” [1] have emerged in recent years. The “China Justice Discussion” clearly does not point out the right argument in the current “China”, but rather the right argument discussed with Chinese traditional thinking as a resource. The condition for this kind of justification is to acknowledge that there are two aspects: generality and speciality. From a large perspective, today’s China’s righteous discussions have all been exposed to these two aspects, but disagreement learners have different understandings about the generality level included in China’s righteousness. Some sides are more important than EasternThe generality of the theory and seeks a communicable aspect in the Chinese justification [2]; some sides emphasize the generality of the Chinese justification and believe that a Chinese-style justification should be established as a positive Chinese-style justification [3]; some people believe that the Eastern and Eastern justifications have their own lengths and weaknesses, and in the future, a new kind of justification should be sought [4]. So, is China’s justification? Is it broader than speciality or vice versa? The key to the problem is how to understand the generality of justice. The generalized question of righteousness can actually be reduced to whether there can be a cooperative discussion between the right arguments of disagreement. If we can find a connected domain, we can also determine that there is a broad sense of justice that follows different opinions. Questions about how to evaluate and build a Chinese legitimate discussion can also be found here. So can there be a cooperative discussion on the Chinese and Western legitimacy?
1. The generality and speciality of righteousness problems
The word “righteousness” in modern Han begins with a translation name, which is a pattern of the Spanish “justice”. If the word “China” is given before “righteousness”, the problem that is touched is the “reverse pattern”. Therefore, discussing the Chinese legitimacy theory cannot be separated from the perspective of comparative thinking and speak on its own. Standing in a relatively standpoint, the most prominent problem is undoubtedly the difference between the right arguments between Chinese and Western countries. In ordinary terms, in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, “as justice, the connotation of its focus is the importance of rights” [5]. If you admit this, then why is the important issue of Confucian righteousness in China, especially being hidden and whether it can appear [6]. It should be noted that discussing the Chinese legitimate argument with a comparative philosophy does not expect to be a kind of “interpretation of the Chinese from the West”, but instead seeking a field of cooperation between Chinese and Western legitimate arguments. This domain should be appropriate. If it is too big, it cannot be able to frame the scope of Chinese legitimate argument; if it is too small, it can miss the rich meaning of Chinese legitimate argument.
As a comparison, this field can be explored in the oriental rational theory, which should be a systematic and comprehensive range of oriental arguments from ancient times to the present. From the late ancient Greek period, righteousness is regarded as a cosmic theory, which represents a transcendental force and rule that can maintain the balance and harmony between all things in the universe. Since modern times, Orientals have limited justice to political philosophy that is unrestrained, equal, and rights-related to society. These two righteous orientations, the former is more broad, while the latter falls in a corner. In contrast, the concept of “to give one his due” formed in the middle and late periods of ancient Greek is the correct issue [7].
In the beginning, the first thing to be discussed is the legislator Soren, whose political practices he promoted make justice and deserved concepts closely connected. ShuttleAthens, where the place was located, the conflict between the slaughter and the slaughter was very intense, which prompted him to think about the just principles of social order. In Solon’s view, the right meaning is to achieve the mean between the slaughter and the slaughter. Therefore, on the one hand, he paid more political power to the despotics based on the many levels of property; on the other hand, he refused to give the common people too much welfare, because the common people deserve unrestrained and just right respect, rather than being extravagant to directly share the property. Whether the property is important or should be obtained by dependent on it [8]. This right concept not only touches the political arena but also contains ethical dimensions. This is not only because Solon’s transformation bill also touches ethical problems, but also because the concept of “giving someone for what they deserve” includes two aspects in theory: one is that in terms of internal short-term, one deserves what they deserve, or the back of it – punishment; the other is that in terms of internal virtue, one gives people good and becomes a bad person, or the back of it – giving people evil and becomes a bad person. From this we can see that the domain as the right meaning is quite broad.
Solon’s righteousness, although introduced into spaces where the concepts should be taken to give the right topics, also leaves room for a utilitarian right-to-define the right by the many things about property, goodness or happiness. After Solon, Plata made a profound assessment of the connotation that is right from the perspective of “goodness”, and this kind of righteousness “was established in the process of criticizing utilitarianism” [9]. Plata believes that if the right lies in the right lies in the right lies, then this should be in accordance with the law only under the meaning of giving good qualities. In other words, if the righteousness is to report evil with evil, it means to include evil in the righteousness, it is not the righteousness. This leads to the legal issue of punishment, which has had an in-depth impact on the development of Eastern righteousness. For example, the medieval Christian theory pushes evil into the end of the judgment. Modern natural legal theory believes that the basis of punishment lies in contracts, and laws can replace beneficiaries in reporting to perpetrators [10]. In short, in Plague, the truth can be understood as a general good or virtue, which is related to the virtues of a specific professional group. Under this condition, Platonic proves that since it is to give a person good, it means that a society “everyone does what he owns as a person, and does not do what others want to do”[11]. Plato believes that if ever
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