How important is Confucianism in the modern world

The Confucian philosophy has aspects which make it pro-progress and pro-tradition. Concerning the pro-tradition side, it is central highlight that the Confucianism has explicitly two important aspects, both which basically mean the idea of learning from the past. The first is that Confucianism establishes the importance to maintain traditional hopes and ideals. While, the second one is the recommendation of learning from past experiences.

Although Confucianism represents ancient models, keeping to quaint habits and so on, Confucianism had adapted to different times, so it means that the basic ideas of the model had been applied in different ways. Therefore, it obligate Confucianism to consider the changing of the world in order to make Confucianism work. Most time Confucianism had failed, but in the time when cases when it had been successful it would be negative, because the stability make impossible to consider changes about Confucianism system.

The rites is an important aspect of Confucianism. In the past they had been part of the Confucianism, clearly now it is impossible to consider rites as part of the modern world. The rites were very complex practiced inside the educated people world. It was desired to be practiced by no educated people in order to eliminate other practice such as vulgar customs and corruptions. However, there is a question if is it possible to get successfully adaptation of rites in modern world, the answer could be no. In this point, Confucianism become in a tradition model impossible to adapt.

Following some studies, we should note that Chinese culture Confucianism would have been buried. For some scholars it had been ended in the “May Fourth Movement”, and now it is only a subject of studies for moral philosophy and scholarship. Therefore, it is reasonable to affirm that the Confucianism had failed in its proposal of learning from the past, because in the modern world the development is growing so fast and its priority is looking for most progress not to review the past.

Concerning the Confucianism as pro progress it is important to consider a lot of contradictions in the modern world. Thus, in the industrial era we have a lot of problems, which are very dangerous for our survival, such as pollution, corruption, crimes, wars, and so on. It has been said in different ways, the problems of low morality and degradations of values.

Know the only space for Confucianism is basically inside philosophy studies and the academic world. While Confucianism has been excluded to that small space, the rest of the modern world is suffering for the lack of morality in any case for the asking for morality system, specially for people who are the most sensible to that lack of morality.

Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that the introduction of morality Confucianism could help us to solve a lot of this problem. We should remember that Confucianism has as one of its principle the goal of transformation of the world such as adaptation to the changing of times. Thus, probably we are ignoring one of the most potential “instrument” offered by Confucianism, which could help us to get a better world.