Confucian view of benevolence and filial piety: filial piety is the fundamental difference between human beings and animals. What do you think of this?

Filial piety is an ethical principle in dealing with family relations. We can know from "Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" that self-cultivation is the basis of governing the country and keeping the country safe. Therefore, the "filial piety" of Qi family is particularly important. Confucius attached great importance to the cultivation and practice of filial piety. In the Analects of Confucius, Confucius talked about filial piety in more than ten places. Confucius asked his disciples to be filial when they entered the DPRK and when they left the DPRK.

Filial piety is not only reflected in caring for parents ("nurturing"), caring for parents' physical health, "fearing that the world will not be chaotic", but also in spiritual respect, which is considered to be the fundamental difference between people and other animals in treating their parents. This respect is reflected in "not violating" parents' orders, "admonishing parents many times, not according to their wishes, but respecting them and working without regrets"; Reflected in "parents are there, don't swim"; It is reflected in being kind to parents' life and death, "born with courtesy; Death, burial with ceremony, sacrifice with ceremony "; It is embodied in "the father values his ambition, the father does not value his deeds, and he will not change his ways for three years." After his father died, he followed his father's instruction for a long time.

Confucian culture put forward by Confucius, as an outstanding representative of China's traditional ideology and culture, has brought us more stylized moral education and won the reputation of "a model for generations to come". As far as "filial piety" in his moral education is concerned, although it has gone through thousands of years, it still carries the banner of China's moral evaluation standard. Therefore, it is necessary for us to study and make up for this filial piety culture at a deeper level, so as to regain the moral and ethical beliefs that China people should have. The main content of filial piety is "making a living by courtesy", that is, when parents are alive, children should serve their parents according to the requirements of filial piety. How should children be filial when their parents are alive? This is a question that we should think about.

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