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The Confucius

The

Confucius

is

a

masterpiece

in

our

history,and

it

is

regarded

as

the

central

work

of

the

Confucianist.

The

scholars

usually

mention

Confucius

the

same

breath with the great ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. However, Socrates is

executed by Athens democratic regime. It is said that the spirit of freedom stop

him escaping. Confucius had never been persecuted by the government, but his

outspoken

is

another

kind

of

freedom.

What

The

Confucius

tells

us is

the

true

meaning of the life in a easiest way. It teaches us how to lead a happy life as our

minds dreaming for. Confucius asserts that we should be filial, and the filial piety

becomes a traditional virtue in China. But on nowadays, more and more people

get unclear cognition about the filial piety. So what is the filial piety in Confucius

?

mind? The master said ,

?

while a man

?

s father is alive,look at the bent of his will;

when his father is dead, look at his conduct. If for three years he does not alter

from the way of his father, he may be called filial

?

. It

?

s much different from the

definition about the filial in today. We modern people just regard supporting as

the filial piety, but it is far from what Confucius suppose it to be. We should do

more to be a filial person.

The Confucius

also carry forward the virtues proper to

humanity and the rites of propriety. But his virtue is not a way to forgive others

?

mistake without any principles.

The Confucius

tells us to treat others equally and

logically, and to leave a little private space to each other. We can also learn how

to

study

and

how

to

be

a

virtue

person

from

The

Confucius.

Those

precious

virtues may not be valued by some people nowadays, but

The Confucius

helps us

appreciate the wisdom to treat the unfair in our life.

The Great Learning

I think that I gain a lot after reading the book

The Great Learning

. It teaches to

illustrate

illustrious

virtue,

to

renovate

the

people,

and

to

rest

in

the

highest

excellence.

The Great Learning

shows me how to behave, it points out a way to

pursuit the real moral. If you wish to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the

kingdom, you first need to order well your own states. If you wish to order well

your state, you should first regulate your families. If you wish to regulate your

families,

you

are

supposed

to

cultivate

your

persons

firstly.

If

you

wish

to

cultivate

your

person,

you

need

to

rectify

your

hearts.

Then

you

should

be

sincere in your thoughts so that you can rectify your hearts. You ought to extend

to

the

utmost

your

knowledge

to

sincere

in

your

thoughts.

Such

extension

of

knowledge lay in the investigation of things. It

?

s not a easy thing to do those all,

but I believe that if I follow the way the book advices, I will finally behave like

the great ancients. Which part of the book make the most profound impression

on me is the part about how to cultivating the person by rectifying the heart. If a

man be under the influence of terror, or under the influence of fond regard, or

under that of sorrow and distress. When the mind is not present, we look and do

not

see;

we

hear

and

do

not

understand;

we

eat

and

do

not

know

the

taste

of

what

we

eat.

This

is

what

meant

by

saying

that

the

cultivation

of

the

person

depends on the rectifying of the mind. Maybe I can not make big contributions to

governing

the

country,

but

I

can

try

me

best

to

cultivate

myself.

The

Great

Learning

makes

me alert that I begin to rethink the reason why I study in the

school for many years. It

?

s not only for the mark or for a good job after school.

It

?

s supporting a chance for me to know the world better and to ennoble me than

before. That

?

s what I need to do in the future.

The Republic

by Plato

Written

by

Plato,

The

Republic

is

a

Socratic

dialogue

.

It?s

is

one

of

the

most

influential works of philosophy and political theory. It is also the longest of his

works

with

the

exception

of

The

Laws,

and

is

no

doubt

the

greatest

of

them.

Plato

?

s strategy in The Republic is to first explicate the primary notion of societal,

or political, justice, and then to derive an analogous concept of individual justice.

In

Plato

?

s

opinion,

an

ideal

society

consists

of

three

main

classes

of

the

people--producers,

auxiliaries

and

guardians.

A

society

is

just

when

relations

between

these

three

classes

are

right.

That

means

each

group

should

do

what

they

are

supposed

to

do,

each

group

have

different

right

to

keep

the

society

running. The argument of

The Republic

is the pursuit of justice. “A just county is

one

in

which

the

organization

of

the

politics,

or

city-state,

mirrors

the

organization

of

the

tripartite

soul.

Thus

the

three

classes

in

the

politics

correspond to a part of the soul respectively and the auxiliaries correspond to the

spirited part of the soul. Each of the three classes, according to their engagement

in their particular corresponding part of the soul, has a virtue most appropriate

to

it.

The

guardians

must

be

wisdom,

and

the

auxiliaries

must

be

courageous,

and

all

three

must

exhibit

moderation.”

Plato

tries

to

convince

people

that

a

country should be governed by the philosophers so that it can be kept long-term

peace and order. Though he made efforts on describing how perfect the country

will be as he imagined, I think that it can just come true in a dream. Because as

we know, that philosophers mostly caring about the real meaning of the life, not

how to make people live peacefully. If we want to something consummately, we

need to use some skills. Obviously, those philosophers do not have the ability on

how to govern the country. Even so, we can not ignore the great effect Plato had

made to us. His depiction about the ideal society in

The Republic

expresses many

people, his Platonic love attracts the youngs very much.

The Limits of Human Understanding

by John Locke