毛泽东对孔子思想的吸取和发挥

孔夫子与毛泽东,中国古今两个伟大"圣人"。他们之间有何关联,论者众说纷纭。毛泽东对孔夫子的态度与评价因历史时期的不同而有所变化,甚为复杂。总起来看,毛泽东对孔子取历史主义态度,充分肯定孔子在中国历史上的地位。他在批评孔子消极思想的同时,注意吸取孔子思想中有价值的因素,用以丰富自己的思想。毛泽东从孔子及儒家思想中吸取和发挥的主要内容有:经世致用、实事求是的精神;独立自主、自强不息的精神;德治思想和人生修养论;中庸思想;教育思想;大同理想。

Mao Zedong's Assimilation and Development of Confucian Thought

Confucius and Mao Zedong are regarded as the two "Sages" in both ancient and modern China respectively. Scholars vary their opinions on the connections between Confucius and Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong took complex attitudes towards Confucius and changing assessments of him in different historical times. Generally speaking, Mao Zedong, taking a historical attitude, fully affirmed Confucius's position in the Chinese history. When he criticized Confucius' negative thought, Mao Zedong assimilated those useful things from Confucius thought, so as to enrich his own thought. Mao Zedong assimilated and developed the thought of Confucius and the Confucian School. The main contents are as follows: the spirit of serving the world and seeking truth from facts; the spirit of being independent and making unremitting efforts to improve oneself; the thought of ruling the country with morality and the doctrine of self cultivation; the thought of the golden mean; educational thought, and the thought of great harmony.