Back to the essence of Confucianism, Zhu Geng redefined Confucianism, that is, anything committed to promoting the level of benevolence and righteousness in the whole society is Confucianism.
Unifying Confucianism with teleology can free Confucianism from Neo-Confucianism, psychology and other things that are mixed with personal practice. The cultivation of personal character is only one aspect of Confucianism internalized into the individual, and the level of benevolence and righteousness in the whole society is the ultimate pursuit of Confucianism.
The traditional definition of benevolence and righteousness often falls into empty words, because the contribution of benevolence and righteousness is only discussed from the perspective of one's inner heart. But as a result, once someone contributes benevolence and righteousness, there must be others who enjoy the benefits of benevolence and righteousness.
If the whole society does not enjoy the benefits of benevolence and righteousness, then those who keep talking about "benevolence and righteousness" are naturally empty-handed.
Therefore, combined with the verifiable perspective of logic, comprehensive benevolence and righteousness include both personal contribution to benevolence and righteousness and personal enjoyment of benevolence and righteousness.
If Confucianism is verified from the results of society's enjoyment of benevolence and righteousness, wouldn't it be clear at a glance who is true and who is false, who is loyal and who is traitorous?
Verifiability will make Confucianism no longer a A person's inner cultivation also makes the Confucianism of different people comparable to each other, and it is no longer an internal conflict caused by scholars being indifferent to each other.
Verifiability fundamentally enables Confucian scholars to use various methods to improve benevolence and righteousness, find problems and solutions from verification results, and thus continuously improve benevolence and righteousness, which ensures the progress and science of Confucianism. sex.
Therefore, although there are few people participating in the discussion today, scientific Confucianism has thus begun. However, from now on Confucianism will inevitably open a new chapter.
When it comes to verifiability, it is necessary to answer how to verify benevolence and righteousness. As for how to verify, it is the responsibility of Liu Junmo, who is also responsible for explaining.
Every era has different things that people need to enjoy. In ancient times, it might be good to have a full stomach. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, what the people pursued was just food and clothing.
Therefore, on the basis of preliminary work, we choose to determine based on the coverage coefficient of ordinary free-spirited monthly income to individual monthly standard consumption of staple food rice and cloth consumption. A city is divided into five thousandths of its population size. The standard cost is the local price of 60 kilograms of rice and 6 feet of cloth per month.
The so-called stratification currently roughly includes the white body walking in the yamen, that is, the people who eat public food but do not have the official and subordinate staff. It also includes urban hawkers, shopkeepers, scholars below the scholar level, and various types of long-term and short-term laborers. Finally, the benevolence index of a city is determined based on the weighted average of population proportion.
For example, if the benevolence index is 1, it means that the average monthly salary of free people in this city can exactly cover their food and clothing expenses for a month. Of course, 1 is a relatively low indicator. It means that on average, people can only feed themselves while working and cannot support their families at all. It also means that the half of people below the average are even worse off because they can’t have enough to eat even after working.
Let me disclose in advance that through interviews, surveys and information reading, the city of HangzhouThe benevolence index has improved rapidly, from 13 last year to 24 recently. Of course, when there were floods in Chun'an and Jiande counties at the beginning of the year, the benevolence index dropped to 05, which meant that people were generally hungry and had no food to eat.
Specifically, in the capital city of Hangzhou, Qiantang County and Renhe County are 23 and 25 respectively. Renhe County is closer to the Hangzhou Bay seaport. Especially in the second half of the year, the development will be faster after the navigation route is dredged, not to mention now The new district is mainly located in Renhe County. Under the rule of Hangzhou Prefecture, the benevolence index of Chun'an and Jiande counties were 18 and 16 respectively.
Chun'an has a flat terrain after all, so this time it will benefit more from Hangzhou's sea trade.
Although the benevolence index here in Hangzhou is not high, it would be difficult for the people to have men go out to support their families. But it was much better than other places. Compared with the newly-pinged Shanghai County, its benevolence index is only 12. The development of seaside land will still take some time. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft