“Sirs, why are you disheartened by your master’s loss of office? The Way has not prevailed in the world for a long time. Heaven is going to use your master as a bell with a wooden tongue [awaken the people].” [Analects 3:24]Years and years of civilization have proved to have not taught the human race the way a rightful government should be. Since early civilizations.. the absence of social harmony still exist. Rightful leaders are out of offices-- either they are thrown out of office or they did not want to involve their selves with the dirty tricks of the so called "government" and those who are indolent and unworthy of positions are given place in the seats of government and given the responsibilities of leading a nation. When will the Way prevail and how its path to the people? Who will the heaven use as a bell with the wooden tongue?
Disharmony according to Confucius is the unwalked path of the way things are supposed to be. The Way, meaning the ideal form or pattern that could lead people's lives into harmony. In a government, where sage-kings should lead, all wise, man of pure ideals and actions are the ones who should be throned leaders of all that is under heaven-- that is the way the Way is. Anything lesser or in total conflict with this is disharmony. Such happens when a man of poor ideals and actions are given the duties of leading the people for the way they could lead them into is a nation of chaos and confusion, of unjust governance and dimmed versions of truth.It is considered the main philosophical problem for it stops the progressive results there should be if only the Way would prevail. Confucius sees this as a root of problems in governance that should be cured in order to heal all the injustices found in governments.
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