Emotional Rationality in Confucian Ethics
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Confucian ethic is characterized by emotional rationality. It conceptualizes emotions, which are subjective and individual, by intelligence. Given this, confucian ethics constructs ethical principles. At the beginning stage, confucian ethic takes “benevolence” as its core, “filial piety” and “fraternal duty” as its beginning, “love the multitude at large” as its goal， and “rest mind” as its ground. Following this, Mencius identifies sympathy as human nature. Therefore, he overcomes the uncertainty of ethical principles bound up with blood relationships, emphasizing that benevolence and love are universal. In Song and Ming dynasties, two schools, which are distinguished in terms of their metaphysics, emerged: one is characterized by “principle”, the other by “mind”. Confucian ethic states that benevolence and love are the characteristics of humans and what makes humans humans, and believes that every human being shares the common emotions and sympathy. In addition, it maintained that benevolence and love are not only possessed by human beings but also the foundation of a confucian metaphysics about the universe. It is therefore concluded that confucian ethic, which highlights emotional rationality, provides people with a variety of moral choices: individuals have diverse comprehensions of benevolence and love, so, there are higher and lower levels of spiritual states. The point is not only to differentiate between moral and nonmoral behaviours, but also to identify which sort of behaviours embodies higher moral value.
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Confucian ethic is characterized by emotional rationality. It conceptualizes emotions, which are subjective and individual, by intelligence. Given this, confucian ethics constructs ethical principles. At the beginning stage, confucian ethic takes “benevolence” as its core, “filial piety” and “fraternal duty” as its beginning, “love the multitude at large” as its goal， and “rest mind” as its ground. Following this, Mencius identifies sympathy as human nature. Therefore, he overcomes the uncertainty of ethical principles bound up with blood relationships, emphasizing that benevolence and love are universal. In Song and Ming dynasties, two schools, which are distinguished in terms of their metaphysics, emerged: one is characterized by “principle”, the other by “mind”. Confucian ethic states that benevolence and love are the characteristics of humans and what makes humans humans, and believes that every human being shares the common emotions and sympathy. In addition, it maintained that benevolence and love are not only possessed by human beings but also the foundation of a confucian metaphysics about the universe. It is therefore concluded that confucian ethic, which highlights emotional rationality, provides people with a variety of moral choices: individuals have diverse comprehensions of benevolence and love, so, there are higher and lower levels of spiritual states. The point is not only to differentiate between moral and nonmoral behaviours, but also to identify which sort of behaviours embodies higher moral value.
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