Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism
... others, how to make use of the possibilities arising from these relations, and how to trust in the validity of these relations as the cornerstone for familial and social harmony. Hence, knowing how to be a ruler or a parent is not knowing the proper behavioral qualities that define an ideal-type rul ...
... others, how to make use of the possibilities arising from these relations, and how to trust in the validity of these relations as the cornerstone for familial and social harmony. Hence, knowing how to be a ruler or a parent is not knowing the proper behavioral qualities that define an ideal-type rul ...
Early Chinese Civilization (p
... that benefits the larger society only if they can be shown that such behavior is also in their own personal self interest. By fully understanding and using this fact, a ruler can build a powerful state. The ruler has in his hands--or should have in his hands--the full coercive force of the state. He ...
... that benefits the larger society only if they can be shown that such behavior is also in their own personal self interest. By fully understanding and using this fact, a ruler can build a powerful state. The ruler has in his hands--or should have in his hands--the full coercive force of the state. He ...
Philosophy 224
... innate tendencies shared by all humans: profit, envy, hatred, and desire (27-28). • “Hence, any man who follows his nature and indulges his emotions will inevitably become involved in wrangling and strife, will violate the forms and rules of society, and will end as a criminal” (28). ...
... innate tendencies shared by all humans: profit, envy, hatred, and desire (27-28). • “Hence, any man who follows his nature and indulges his emotions will inevitably become involved in wrangling and strife, will violate the forms and rules of society, and will end as a criminal” (28). ...
The Historical Setting for the Forming of Neo
... and all objects are endowed with li. In many ways li can be considered an object’s nature or reason for existence. So what is man’s li? To what purpose or end is man striving for? Fung Yu-Lan gives us an interesting answer and insight into this question by stating that “the ultimate purpose of NeoCo ...
... and all objects are endowed with li. In many ways li can be considered an object’s nature or reason for existence. So what is man’s li? To what purpose or end is man striving for? Fung Yu-Lan gives us an interesting answer and insight into this question by stating that “the ultimate purpose of NeoCo ...
Confucianism as Humanism - University of Central Arkansas
... The main difference is the internal tension of whether to accept or reject the existence of the supernatural; Kongzi (Confucius) himself didn’t reject the supernatural, rather he chose to focus and emphasis the development of the natural world and humans’ role in that natural world. There was confli ...
... The main difference is the internal tension of whether to accept or reject the existence of the supernatural; Kongzi (Confucius) himself didn’t reject the supernatural, rather he chose to focus and emphasis the development of the natural world and humans’ role in that natural world. There was confli ...
Confucian Worries about the Aristotelian Sophos
... suggested in various ways that the Aristotelian sophos overvalues theoretically wise understanding at the expense of other, less-narrowly intellectual goods; that the theoretically wise understanding the sophos pursues is useless and of questionable value; and that the 1sophos’s way of life requires ...
... suggested in various ways that the Aristotelian sophos overvalues theoretically wise understanding at the expense of other, less-narrowly intellectual goods; that the theoretically wise understanding the sophos pursues is useless and of questionable value; and that the 1sophos’s way of life requires ...
research on the contribution of confucian ethics
... of Ethics/Morality. The crucial reflection comes on how to truly apply Ethics at the global level within complex and challenging situations. It has been said that we are reaching a turning point of great magnitude in Ethics which affects the future of our planet. We could be destroyed by the realiti ...
... of Ethics/Morality. The crucial reflection comes on how to truly apply Ethics at the global level within complex and challenging situations. It has been said that we are reaching a turning point of great magnitude in Ethics which affects the future of our planet. We could be destroyed by the realiti ...
65 Lecture 4 The Character of the Confucian System In our last
... God; it is understood through the idea of God. The Chinese idea of “heaven” is also responsible for the existence of the myriad things [the phenomenal world]. Hence “The Way of heaven procreates and transforms.” The idea of heaven has existed since the time of the Three Dynasties of Xia, Shang, and ...
... God; it is understood through the idea of God. The Chinese idea of “heaven” is also responsible for the existence of the myriad things [the phenomenal world]. Hence “The Way of heaven procreates and transforms.” The idea of heaven has existed since the time of the Three Dynasties of Xia, Shang, and ...
Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously
... for similarities; the former avoids using Western categories to analyze what it regards as a remote and alien culture and tends to look for differences rather than similarities. The comparative and contrastive approaches, however, share some common ground. Both of them “objectify” what they study; t ...
... for similarities; the former avoids using Western categories to analyze what it regards as a remote and alien culture and tends to look for differences rather than similarities. The comparative and contrastive approaches, however, share some common ground. Both of them “objectify” what they study; t ...
LEARNING TO BE HUMAN: THE IMPLICATIONS OF CONFUCIAN
... Shixing, Trans. into Modern Chinese & Lao, An, Trans. into English). ...
... Shixing, Trans. into Modern Chinese & Lao, An, Trans. into English). ...
CONFUCIUS AND KANT OR THE ETHICS OF DUTY
... Confucius’ morals and the Kantian deontological ethics. Confucius was born in 551 B.C. Living during the time when China went through a period of social and moral regress, Confucius preached the dao (the way of the old), by stressing that the ancient social hierachies reflected the moral order of th ...
... Confucius’ morals and the Kantian deontological ethics. Confucius was born in 551 B.C. Living during the time when China went through a period of social and moral regress, Confucius preached the dao (the way of the old), by stressing that the ancient social hierachies reflected the moral order of th ...
Dao, Harmony and Personhood: Towards a Confucian Ethics of
... metaphysical, epistemological, and ethico-political. In its metaphysical connotation, i.e. (4), Dao is most often associated with Heaven (Tian).5 In Confucian thought, Heaven refers to the universe, and/or when in conjunction with Earth (Di) to the nature and the material world. Confucians believe H ...
... metaphysical, epistemological, and ethico-political. In its metaphysical connotation, i.e. (4), Dao is most often associated with Heaven (Tian).5 In Confucian thought, Heaven refers to the universe, and/or when in conjunction with Earth (Di) to the nature and the material world. Confucians believe H ...
The Journal of the China Society for Ethics
... with respect to ethics in China? Ethics Studies, the journal of the China Association for Ethics (created by the Association and Institute for Ethics at Hunan Normal University in 2002) is a window opening on important developments in ethics in China. As the first professional journal of ethics in C ...
... with respect to ethics in China? Ethics Studies, the journal of the China Association for Ethics (created by the Association and Institute for Ethics at Hunan Normal University in 2002) is a window opening on important developments in ethics in China. As the first professional journal of ethics in C ...
Moral Beauty as An Overriding Imperative in
... philosophical traditions whose subject matter is at the center of the debate about the nature of moral principles and motivation. At the end of this chapter, I propose Confucian understanding of the self as situated in a societal context and argue that the discrepancy among moral principles is only ...
... philosophical traditions whose subject matter is at the center of the debate about the nature of moral principles and motivation. At the end of this chapter, I propose Confucian understanding of the self as situated in a societal context and argue that the discrepancy among moral principles is only ...
Confucianism
Confucianism, also known as Ruism, is a system of philosophical and ""ethical-sociopolitical teachings"" sometimes described as a religion. Confucianism developed during the Spring and Autumn Period from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551–479 BCE), who considered himself a retransmitter of Zhou values. Its metaphysical and cosmological elements developed in the Han Dynasty following the replacement of its contemporary, the more Taoistic Huang-Lao, as the official ideology. More privately, Chinese emperors would still make use of Chinese Realpolitik. The disintegration of the Han in the second century CE opened the way for the soteriological doctrines of Buddhism and Taoism to dominate intellectual life at that time.A Confucian revival began during the Tang dynasty. In the late Tang, Confucianism developed in response to Buddhism and Taoism and was reformulated as Neo-Confucianism. This reinvigorated form was adopted as the basis of the imperial exams and the core philosophy of the scholar official class in the Song dynasty. The abolition of the examination system in 1905 marked the end of official Confucianism. The New Culture intellectuals of the early twentieth century blamed Confucianism for China's weaknesses. They searched for new doctrines to replace Confucian teachings; some of these new ideologies include the ""Three Principles of the People"" with the establishment of the Republic of China, and then Maoism under the People's Republic of China. In the late twentieth century, some people credited Confucianism with the rise of the East Asian economy and it enjoyed a rise in popularity both in China and abroad.The core of Confucianism is humanistic, or, according to the Herbert Fingarette's concept of ""the secular as sacred"", a religion that deconstructs the sacred-profane dichotomy regarding the secular realm of human action as a manifestation of the sacred. Confucianism focuses on the practical order that is given by a this-worldly awareness of the Tian (the impersonal absolute principle) and a proper respect of the gods (shen), with particular emphasis on the importance of the family and social harmony, rather than on an otherworldly soteriology. Confucian liturgy (that is called 儒 rú, or sometimes 正统 zhèngtǒng, meaning ""orthoprax"" ritual style) led by Confucian priests or ritual masters (礼生 lǐshēng) to worship the gods in public and ancestral Chinese temples, is preferred in special occasions over Taoist or popular ritual.The this-worldly concern of Confucianism rests on the belief that human beings are fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and communal endeavor especially self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought focuses on the cultivation of virtue and maintenance of ethics. Some of the basic Confucian ethical concepts and practices include rén, yì, and lǐ, and zhì. Ren (""humaneness"") is the essence of the human being which manifests as compassion, it is the virtue-form of Heaven. Yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good. Li is a system of ritual norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act in everyday life according to the law of Heaven. Zhi is the ability to see what is right and fair, or the converse, in the behaviors exhibited by others. Confucianism holds one in contempt, either passively or actively, for failure to uphold the cardinal moral values of ren and yi.Historically, cultures and countries strongly influenced by Confucianism include mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam, as well as various territories settled predominantly by Chinese people, such as Singapore. In the 20th century, Confucianism’s influence was greatly reduced. More recently, there have been talks of a ""Confucian Revival"" in the academia and the scholarly community and there has been a grassroots proliferation of various types of Confucian churches.
