Hegel 's famous saying often causes misunderstandings - using it to defend moral corruption and even illegal discipline.
After all, these people only see the conservative side of " existence is reasonable ", but do not see its revolutionary side ; or in other words, they do not understand that "reasonable" must be based on the corresponding conditions, and the existence of bad phenomena must have its bad reasons .
In "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy ", Engels' explanation of "existence is reasonable" (actually the second half of the sentence) is more popular: " No matter which philosophical proposition is, it does not arouse the gratitude of the myopic government and the anger of the same myopic liberals like a famous proposition by Hegel. This proposition is: 'Everything is reasonable, and everything that is reasonable is realistic.' This is obviously the extant existence All sacredness is a philosophical blessing for the autocratic system, the police state, the arbitrary judicial system, and the newspaper inspection system. Friedrich William III believed this, and his subjects believed this. However, in Hegel's view, not everything that exists is unconditionally real. In his view, the attribute of reality belongs only to something that is inevitable; ‘reality is shown as necessity in its development’; therefore, he never believes that any measure of the government—Hegel himself cited ‘a certain tax system’ as an example—has already been Unconditionally, it is realistic. But the necessary things will ultimately show that they are rational. Therefore, the application of Hegel's proposition to the Prussian state at that time only means that this country is rational only when it is inevitable and is consistent with reason. If it seems to us that it is bad after all, and it continues to exist despite its badness, then the illness of the government can find reasons and explanations from the corresponding illness of the subjects. The illness of the illness of the illness of the illness of the illness of the illness of the subjects at that time. Deserved government. "
If you want to use it to "explain the existence of Confucianism ", then in a nutshell - In the feudal monarchy , feudal hierarchy is the reason for the existence of feudal ethics. Rulers need strict hierarchy to maintain their rule, or in other words, Confucianism is originally a reflection of feudal monarchy.
In today's view, most Confucianism is "bad" and will be thrown into the garbage dump of history.
