The Ethics Theory Of Family In Confucian Perspective From Documents Of The Master Said

Family, is not only closely related to the empirical life of every individual, but also thrives on Chinese traditional culture. Confucius thinks of family richly through the documents of the Master Said. In the community of family, the kinds of different、near or far relationships between human beings are established according to the kinship. For every Chinese ancient, their relationship’s starting point is their family, then expand outside. For the rich kinship, individuals need to shoulder a different moral responsibility, resulting in the corresponding ethic category, which can be summarized by Dao, depended on Ren, normalized to Li. And from the vertically and horizontally perspective of the core is filial piety and fraternal duty. The relationships, categories are not only confined within the family, which can be generalized the neighbors, the country, and the world by analogy. Some similar arguments can be seen from Confucius, The Great Learning, Mencius. There are interlinked, similar relationships between "family" and "country","filial piety" and "loyalty","the monarch and his subjects" and "father and son", thus, family harmony plays a cardinal part in the process of self-cultivation, state governing and world peace.Nowadays, the traditional culture and ethic of family was pushed aside and misunderstood by the technology and democracy. No matter how the world changes, the blood bonds have never been faded by reinforced concrete, information technology, democratic society. Past, present, or future, we will always enrich ourselves, society, the state in family. The ethics theory of family in China is still flowing in history, precipitated in the documents of the Master Said.In the documents of the Master Said, Confucius’s ethics thinking of family is a topic of great value. Today there are many theory and research talking about family, lacing of the systematic induction and summary. This article hopes to restore a fuller image of Confucius and make a certain reflection to the cultural construction of contemporary families.