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Chinese Buddhist Ethics And Moral Consciousness

Posted on:2015-03-30Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M X GaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2265330428477094Subject:Ethics
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This study in Chinese buddhist ethic as the research object, mainly in the perspective of moral consciousness, strive to ethics of sinicization of Buddhism and Chinese Buddhism, the tendency of secularization, rational discussion, put forward effective moral culture system construction in our country, using for reference.First, about the Chinese buddhist ethics. Buddhism belongs to the foreign religion, but it is now shining on the Chinese soil. It absorbed the Chinese literati, training their own personal ethics, the Chinese society with filial first family ethics, intelligentsia noblesse social ethics, and the Confucianism that advocated the unity of nature and man, thus forming a distinct Chinese buddhist ethics with Indian Buddhism.Second, about the moral consciousness. Should consciously is the essence of moral attributes, but in the reality life became what we advocate a kind of valuable quality. Articles from Kant’s critique of practical reason, carefully distinguish between the practice rationality, law, rule, freedom, moral legislation, and other concepts, which defines the moral consciousness as the natural law of causality as will decide based on ethical behavior. Moral consciousness is, as it were, ruled out personal feelings and desires of people and natural law consciousness.Third, the focus of this study is to solve Chinese buddhist ethics moral consciousness of the problem. As China’s indigenous belief systems in moral and religious, moral consciousness is its can dominate the root cause of the Chinese society for a long time. As a result of the general religious ethics emphasizes the heteronomy, his strength, he believed, tend to ignore the person’s subjective initiative, under the man’s ability to drown in the light of god. And Chinese Buddhism in the soil of Chinese culture has experienced the development of special is different from other religious, it absorbed the Chinese traditional culture of ethnic genes, and the traditional Confucian Taoist constant collision and fusion, finally completely into a moral religion to adapt to Chinese culture. Its ethics thought more become an important part of Chinese traditional culture. Whether its emphasis on role of the mind, emphasizes secularism and transcendent unity, a lot of characteristic of rational tomoya masanao, or moral consciousness of Chinese buddhist ethics connotation, or Chinese buddhist ethics way contribute to realize the moral consciousness of people, these have become the focus of this study. The Confucianism, two mutual integration, in particular, the effects of the common for Chinese society, for the formation of individual moral consciousness and the construction of social morality consciousness provides a clear way.Therefore, this paper studies of moral consciousness from the Angle of view for Chinese traditional culture form provides a train of thought.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chinese buddhist ethics, practical reason, contrast BuddhaConfucianism, moral consciousness
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