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Establishment Of Chinese Traditional Filial Piety

Posted on:2007-10-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S X GuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185458556Subject:Special History
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The culture of Chinese nation has a long history and be well established, the filial piety occupies the important position in the civilization of several thousand years as one of the factors of national culture. At present, China will step into the aging society soon, the support of elderly and the spiritual consolation question is important day by day, social current requires people to investigate filial piety tradition again, the majority maintains that it should be criticized and inherited to it. To make the course and reason of filial piety establishment out is the foundation of essential part.Western Zhou Dynasty, filial idea has already developed among society, at first, it has been used to express the respect for the ancestor more, and then its meaning has gradually stressed to support the parents alive. The filial piety originally came from the blood relationship and the will of people's heart. In spring and autumn period, the enormous change of the society impacted people's moral concept so badly, the unfilial thing appeared and became the social phenomenon again and again. In the face of the turbulence and confusion of the society, master of Confucian, Confucius, in order to rescue the people generation, basing on traditional concept, put forward his own theory view, have constructed and built the theory " benevolence ". Filial piety formed the theory frame as the foundation of moral philosophy, and moved towards the code of ethic. Confucius explained with support, respect, protecting whole body, inheriting father's idea, funeral and sacrifice, disguising for father etc, this confirmed largely the developing direction of Chinese traditional culture.The Warring States Period, different schools carried on fierce dispute over the filial piety, on the base of Confucius' filial piety theory, the zisi schools proposed that individual had qualification to require children to show filial respect after fulfilling his duty, filial piety should be sincere emotion of heart, it was the behavior of the benevolent morals, and it's helpful for the social stability and administration. It had made Confucius' filial piety theory more detailed and concrete, and it had further promoted the politicizing of filial piety, had strengthened the influence of the filial piety in Chinese traditional culture. A group of Mencius further explained the relation of the benevolence and filial piety, proved the rational existence of filial piety, paid attention to practice of the filial piety. The argumentation about the filial piety of Zengzi School was comparatively concrete, it made filial piety become theoretical system, the filial...
Keywords/Search Tags:Filial piety, Construct and build, Establishment, Ethics
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