There are three differences between Taoism and Confucianism in other respects:
First, the core of the two is different:
1, Taoism takes "Tao" as the core, thinks that Tao is inaction, advocates the nature of Tao, and puts forward political, economic, governing the country and military strategies, such as making laws, obeying the public and following the mother, and combining rigidity with softness. It has simple dialectical thought, is an extremely important philosophical school in "a hundred schools of thought contend", exists in various cultural fields in China, and has a great influence on the culture of China and even the world.
2. Confucianism takes "benevolence" and "ceremony" as its core, its political thoughts are "benevolent government", "kingly way" and "ritual system", and its ideals are "great harmony" and "great unity". Its political science mainly expounds the relationship between monarch and minister and the relationship between officials and people. Confucius said "the courtesy of the monarch is loyal to the monarch", Mencius said that "the people are the most important, the country is the second, and the monarch is the least important", and Xunzi said that "it is a representative proposition of Confucian political science to go against the monarch, shun Yi and his father."
Second, the founders are different:
1, the founder of Taoism is Laozi. Laozi collected the great wisdom of ancient sages, summed up the essence of ancient Taoist thought, and formed a complete and systematic Taoist theory, which marked the formal formation of Taoist thought.
2. The founder of Confucianism is Confucius. Confucius founded Confucianism, Mencius developed Confucianism, Xunzi combined their achievements, and then continued. At this point, Confucianism has become an academic school with certain vitality.
Third, they have different influences on China culture:
1. Taoism, especially Taoism, Laozi and Zhuangzi, has more influence on China's literature and art than a hundred schools of thought contend, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. This influence is so great that it is still not out of date. In aesthetics, Taoism advocates that Taoism is natural, so the pursuit of natural beauty has become the highest realm of China's literature and art.
Because of the close relationship between Taoism and prosperity, it helps to increase the heroism of literature and art, and Taoism is the spiritual pillar of literati in the declining era to treat trauma, thus creating a broad-minded and relaxed literary and artistic style.
2. Confucianism is one of the most influential schools in ancient China since Dong Zhongshu's "ousting a hundred schools and worshiping Confucianism alone". Confucianism, as the embodiment of China's inherent value system, is not an academic or school in the usual sense. Generally speaking, especially in the pre-Qin period, although Confucianism was the most influential school, it was only one of the hundred schools and had no affiliation with other hundred schools.
Confucianism has a profound influence on China culture. In the feudal society for thousands of years, China people only taught the Four Books and Five Classics from generation to generation. In China's genes, ideas such as responsibility (taking the world as one's duty), loyalty and filial piety (benevolence, courtesy, wisdom and faith), forgiveness (don't do to others what you don't want others), and ethics (self-cultivation, keeping the family in order, governing the country and calming the world) are all the results of the combination of Confucianism and autocratic rule.
Extended data:
First, the characteristics of Confucianism:
1, taking Confucius as a teacher and an ideological leader;
2. Take Zhouyi, Shangshu, Shijing, Book of Rites, Chunqiu and other books as classics;
3. Formed the tension structure of benevolence in thought;
4, from the inner sage to the outer king, through the inner body and mind to achieve the learning of the work of the outer king;
5. Paying special attention to the ethical relationship between people and applying it to political practice has become a guiding principle.
Second, the category of Taoism:
As a complex theory, Taoism has gone through thousands of years since ancient times, and naturally it will go through many stages of development and have many different names, which is self-evident. In its early days, according to the region and time, there were various titles such as Zheng Dao, Jin Dao, Qin Dao, Chu Dao, Qi Dao, Warring States Dao, Pre-Qin Dao and Primitive Dao.
Later, due to different emphases, it was divided into different factions and formed various factions. There are 37 schools of thought and 993 articles in the Records of Hanshu Yiwenzhi alone, which are highly praised by Ban Gu. However, after the Qin fire, the Han fire, and the death of the righteous official. The existing schools of Taoism include Zhuangzi, Huang Lao, Yang Zhu, Taoism and Neo-Taoism.
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