Political theory in Confucianism and its realization like method of the religion education

ABSTRACT

Confucian political theory has the idea, ‘T'ien Ming’(天命) thought, that all politial decision are derived from Heaven, the absolute being. As a result King is inaugurated by T'ien Ming that are entirely dependent on ‘people's minds’(民心), we have appreciated.Therefore people's minds are stressed first of all in the ‘political road of king’(王道). In the end the ideal community of nation can be formed just when ‘heaven, people and king achieve trinity(天·王·民三位一體)’. Then we can see a religional pattern in the relations of undivided national units.But the most important unit of nation is people's mind that can't be easilygrasped. Only when king plays a role from his mind that loves his people asbeings to be loved just as Mencius already proposed that idea, the emperor can be only by people's minds. Mencius compared the political road of king as ideal system to Confucius' desciples more than seventy following him. This is the new proposal of political paradigm that the ideas of road of king is adjusted to the relations of teaching and learning. In this systm people choose their king on their own judges just as the desciples choose their teachers.In the meanwhile there are the principles of members to perform the community of nation, which are one of the ideas of road of king, and the form of nation. The former is described on the above, the latter is the form of nation from T'ien Ming which is called nine categories of wide models(洪範九疇)The religional performance of politic affairs and education in Confucianism includes the theory that our problem can be solved by ‘recovering our good nature’(道德性恢復). In a sense the fact is proved that there is the performance of the unity between politics and religion through T'ien Ming.In conclusions the absolute value in Confucianism is to realize the concept of T'ien, and politics and education are intermediated by T'ien as the absolute and natural being, and the quality of religion is formed by natural morality. For exemple there is father's way in the family, teacher's way in the education, and the trinity of king, teacher and father for the realization of politics, which represents that there is the dialectic seek of unity in various sides in Confucianism.