The Contemporary Value Of Confucian Responsibility Ethics

Confucian responsibility ethics holds that the theory that man is an integral of nature is its main purpose.Confucian responsibility ethics includes self-cultivating,family-regulating,state-ordering and the land great governed,which provides a lot of inspiration for people to deal with the relationship between man and self,man and society,man and nature.At present,China is in the period of social transformation,and great changes have taken place in people's responsibility values.As the core idea of Chinese traditional ethics,Confucian responsibility ethics has important practical significance for the reconstruction of morality and the formation of a good sense of responsibility.At the beginning of the thesis,the research reason and the research ? significance are followed by summary and comment on the relevant research results from at home and abroad from the aspects of the contemporary scholars' research on Confucian ethics of responsibility.We can draw lessons from the results of it;make up for the lack of it.The paper is divided into five parts: the formation and development of Confucian ethic of responsibility,the types and characteristics of Confucian ethic of responsibility,the historical value of Confucian ethic of responsibility and the limitations of Confucianism,and the enlightenment of Confucian responsibility ethics to contemporary moral responsibility.The first part is the formation and development of Confucian ethics of responsibility.This part mainly explores the ethic of Confucian responsibility with the clue of time: the pre-Qin period,the Han dynasty,the Sui and Tang dynasties,the Song,Ming and Qing Dynasties.In the pre-Qin period,the Confucian concept of responsibility was embodied in the ideas of heaven and human,society and self-cultivation.The Confucianism in the Han Dynasty and Confucianism became the main stream,which mainly described Dong Zhongshu's representative ethic of responsibility.In the Sui and Tang dynasties,as for the Song,Ming and Qing Dynasties,this article mainly analyzes Fan Zhongyan,Zhang Zai,Wang Yangming,Gu Yanwu several people's responsibility ethical thought to carry on the analysis.The second part is the type and characteristics of Confucian ethics of responsibility.First of all,from the individual,family,country and society,the four aspects of ecological environment,the system and detailed analysis of Confucian ethics of responsibility.Secondly,through the classification of Confucian ethical responsibility,the author summarizes the four characteristics of Confucian ethics of responsibility.The third part is the historical value and the limitation of Confucian ethics of responsibility.This part is to reveal the historical value of the Confucian ethic of responsibility in the aspects of individual,family,country and society,and combine the contemporary social reality,from two aspects of a brief interpretation of the Confucian ethics of responsibility does not meet the requirements of the development of the times.The fourth part is the enlightenment of Confucian responsibility ethics to contemporary moral responsibility.The first is the personal level.The second is the family level.The third is the level of national and social responsibility.The fourth is the ecological level.The ethics of responsibility advocated by Confucianism is the excellent traditional ethical and moral culture of China,and it has trained the Chinese nation to re-emphasize the righteousness and responsibility,and shoulder the responsibility of outstanding moral character.By analyzing the contemporary value of Confucian ethics of responsibility,it is possible to realize the Confucian ethical responsibility to keep pace with the times.