Davydov A.P. The middle path of development of modern Chinese society (Confucian sources). Personality. The culture. Society, 2019, Vol. XXI, Issue 3-4 (103-104), pp. 124-134.

Abstract

The article establishes the connection between the course of the Communist Party of China, proclaimed in 2002-2018. to build a harmonious society in the PRC and to support the party in implementing this course on the traditional Confucian moral imperatives of the Middle and Middle Way. The structure of this connection is being reconstructed and a methodology for its study is proposed. The logic of the evolution of Chinese culture through an organic connection between the basic tenets of ancient Chinese philosophy (Lao Tzu, Confucius and Confucian philosophers) and the formulation by the leaders of the CPC of the task of building a harmonious society in China is considered. The task is to understand the Middle in the Tao system, the analytical method of Confucius and Confucian theorists is based on the analysis of the two basic works of Confucius - Lun Yu (Conversations and Judgments) and Li Ji (Book of Establishments) - collections of ideas / statements of Confucius collected and published by his students after his death. The conclusion is substantiated that the concept of the Middle Way directs a person to develop in himself the ability to possess knowledge (to be a scientist), to be able to change, to be able to solve new, complex and even great tasks (for example, to subjugate the sky), to be independent of everyone, even from the son of the sky, and at the same time to establish boundaries this ability in accordance with the rules dictated by society. It substantiates the method, as it were, of a joint study by Confucius and the author of this article of the median (mediana - lat. middle; mediation - eng. search for the middle, mediation) logic of the development of Chinese society.