What anecdotes do celebrities have about honesty?

Celebrity anecdotes about honesty include: Han Xin repaid kindness, Shang Yang established a tree as a letter.

1, Han Xin returns the favor.

As the founding hero of the Western Han Dynasty, Han Xin grew up in a poor family, lived with his brother and daughter-in-law and ate leftovers. Han Xin helped his brother during the day and studied hard at night. As a result, his sister-in-law kicked him out of the house. An old lady who worked as a mercenary for others sympathized with him, supported him to study and let him eat every day.

Han Xin is very grateful to her grandmother for her sincerity. He said to the old man, "I'll give it back to you when I grow up." Grandma smiled and said, "I'll bury it when you grow up." Later, Han Xin became a famous general, but he still remembered the old man he had helped, found the old man and took him to have fun.

2. Shang Yang established a tree as a letter

This is a great event that happened in Qin during the Warring States Period, and it is also a famous honesty story in history. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Shang Yang presided over the political reform with the support of Qin Xiaogong. At that time, in order to promote the reform, Shang Yang ordered a three-foot-long tree to be erected outside the south gate of the capital, and publicly promised that whoever could transport the tree to the north gate would be rewarded with 12, but everyone did not believe it.

It was not until the bonus was raised to 50 gold that a strong man transported the tree to the north gate that Shang Yang gave him 50 gold as promised. This behavior of Shang Yang won people's trust in Shang Yang and established prestige in people's hearts. Shang Yang's subsequent reforms spread throughout the state of Qin. This story is also called Shang.

Honesty ethics

China's honesty is mainly an "identity" ethics, while westerners' honesty is a "contract" ethics. In China's ancient natural economy and society, honesty was mainly emphasized in narrow areas such as families, tribes and villages, and it was a patriarchal family ethics in the identity network.

The main requirements are the loyalty of subjects to the monarch, the obedience of children to their parents, and the loyalty of wives to their husbands. This is completely a personal attachment relationship, not based on the complete equality of each other's personalities. If subjects, children and wives try to get rid of this attachment, they will be severely punished by the family and the state, and even die.

The way of honesty in the west is a mutually beneficial contract ethics with the development of commodity economy and monetary economy. Western social contract theorists regard honesty as the moral law of human commitment and performance, and combine morality with rule of law.

Grotius, a western scholar, pointed out that it is human nature to abide by contracts. When people conclude contracts, civil law comes into being. He believes that "the agreement must be observed" and "guilty must be punished".