The "Three Outlines" and "Eight Items" put forward in "University" emphasize that self-cultivation is the premise of governing people, and the purpose of self-cultivation is to govern the country and the world, which shows the consistency between governing the country and the world and personal moral cultivation. The full text of "Da Xue" is concise, profound and far-reaching. This paper mainly summarizes the pre-Qin Confucian moral cultivation theory, as well as the basic principles and methods of moral cultivation, and also systematically discusses the Confucian political philosophy, which has profound enlightenment for being a man, doing things and governing the country.
As the first of the four books, Daxue is an important ideological carrier of Confucianism. Confucianism, as the legal basis of China's traditional politics, played an important role in the construction of China's ancient clean government culture, which had a far-reaching impact. The economic thoughts put forward by universities are the most favorable cultural basis for building Socialism with Chinese characteristics's economics. For example, he put forward the ideas of "taking virtue as the last wealth", "gathering wealth for the people", "making people comfortable" and "taking righteousness as benefit".
The university put forward a political philosophy project. Universities theorized and popularized Confucianism in a short space, which was convenient for scholars to learn and master, and Confucianism provided a guarantee for the stability of feudal dynasties. University can be said to be the first book of scientific enlightenment. It puts forward that "sincerity and integrity" is a necessary scientific research mentality, "learning from others" is the only way to know, "stopping at perfection" is the pursuit of perfection, and "improving day by day" is a strong sense of innovation.