Meandry ideologii konfucjańskiej i polityki w Chinach
Maeanders of the Confucian ideology and the policy in China
Author(s): Jan KoniorSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Ignatianum w Krakowie
Keywords: Confucian Ideology; Taoism; Confucianism; the system of bureaucracy; the inspection of authority; Chinese politic of today
Summary/Abstract: Article draws attention to the historical and political aspects of Confucius ideology in the history of China in regard to the philosophic systems Confucianism and Taoism. Educated class of Chinese writers, had a big impact on bureaucratic management system. Confucianism organizes society and its hierarchy between the authority and its subordination. An individual must conform to the established social norms (Confucian ones) which, tested in history, become a guarantor of the social order. The authority in China has always been subject to control. Emperors ruled by his ministers, next of kin, quite often by eunuchs. They controlled one another and disbelieved one another. Control, informing, mistrust, violence – the fixed elements in the policy of China, both in imperial China as in the present – communist time.
Journal: Horyzonty Polityki
- Issue Year: 3/2012
- Issue No: 05
- Page Range: 83-102
- Page Count: 19
- Language: Polish
