Topic:

"Ceremony Disintegration" on Relationship between Lao Tzu and Confucius

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Background:

Ritual-musical civilization in the Western Zhou Dynasty was an all-encompassing political, educational and cultural system.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, ritual-musical system was gradually destroyed as the territory and military power of the Zhou Emperor greatly declined, the patriarchal clan system and the enfeoffment system disintegrated, and the land system changed .

At this time, the country is already in chaos. People began to think about how to treat this disorganized society.

Compared with the "sick body" of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty ritual-musical civilization became their "reference".

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What:

Take Lao Tzu and Confucius as examples.

The former broke through the worship of god and etiquette system, but inherited the core spirit of ritual-musical civilization.

Although the latter takes reviving the ritual-music civilization as its mission and praises the prosperity of ritual-music civilization, but also makes some changes in the concepts of "heaven" and " morality" and education.

Lao Tzu believes that the "loss" between "Tao", "morality", "benevolence", "righteousness" and "ritual" is not a qualitative change, but a "transformation" relationship.

The "Tao" advocated by Confucius can be understood as "the Tao of former kings", that is, the ritual-musical civilization in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Their reaction to "Ceremony Disintegration" is also different, but their goal of pursuing an ideal society is the same.

The society of Confucius called "There is Tao in the world" is similar to the principle of "Tao in the world" emphasized by Lao Tzu. their "Tao" is the same with the difference, and the difference has the same.

In their political thoughts, one seems to advocate "doing nothing”, but in fact it is "doing nothing with doing everything". The other seems to want "doing something", but the ultimate goal is "governing by doing nothing".

In their ideal society, the “wonderful great harmony" in the world is the same as the "great harmony" in the world.

They all have the feelings of "one family in the world" and pursue social harmony.

They are all people-oriented, advocating "sage" politics that conforms to the nature of the people and virtually educates them.

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參考文獻來源：陳雄 ??“禮壞樂崩”與老孔分途

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