Morality is the way that people understand
themselves, understand other people, also how they understand the world. The
traditional Chinese moral values, pay attention to "propriety,
righteousness, benevolence and integrity." "The Analects" has
impacted on Chinese moral values greatly.
The centre of Confucianism is benevolence. Confucian respect unaffected, doesn’t support rhetoric; focus on human action, strongly support that
people should do what they said, do what they can. This attitude and spirit of morality
has long-term impact on Chinese people.
Confucianism believes that the
implementation of the filial piety at home will make the ruler does not "guilty of rebellion"; then promote
filial piety to all working people, then people will obey, not to revolt, so
that you can improve national
and social stability.
Filial piety and social stability are
directly related to each other. Confucius has seen this point, so all of his thoughts are starting from here. From the point of if filial piety occurred the rebellion won’t
happen, indicated that filial piety is the fundamental
base of benevolence.
Since the warring state period the rulers and scholars have inherited what Confucius said, advocated the
"Filial Piety." In the Han Dynasty, as an example, they put moral education as
an important means of implementing the feudal rule, the people imprisoned in rules and ethics among the shackles of public
morality. This
action had a tremendous
impact on the whole
Chinese traditional culture and morality.
Confucian agreed
with the thoughts of filial
piety as a great important moral value is because that filial piety is the basis of loyalty; the person
who cannot be filial to their parents cannot be loyal to the country. Therefore, the
extension of filial piety is loyalty.
"The Analects" is one of the classics in Chinese culture, which is very important, in the past it was known as "China Man's
Bible," everyone would read the book. In today's society, "Analects of
Confucius" influence people through the "cultivate oneself". It has become a socially responsible
manner conducive to social development, their ideas are worthy, and we all should read
and study, scrutiny,
then check ourselves. By doing
so, we can increase the level of our own morality;
promote the harmonious development of society. Therefore, the value of "Analects of Confucius" in the modern society cannot be ignored.
I tend to find your entry as a good reminder to those values that had shaped up the foundations of the morality in most part of North East Asia. But these traditional values of Asian morality are often at risk these days, where a myriad of cultural clashes are happening in that region of the world. And as a result, some of the traditional values are often seen as something difficult to be abode by and Western cultural values are increasingly widespread.
ReplyDeleteThis provides me with an important lesson to be thoughtful about. How should we be able to consistently apply these values no matter what sort of changes are awaiting ahead of us?