Confucianism

Confucianism

Importance of Peace and Relationship
1. social system is contracted like a spider web in which one is at the center
  1. everyone is interrelated
    1. Saying: "Everyone has a cousin three thousand miles away,"
  2. has an abstract pattern/ a set of categorical concepts
    1. family stands in the center,then the neighborhood surround the family, then the state, then the whole world surround the state.
      1. meaning each of the factors will eventually be affected by power of the center
      2. neighborhood s not a fixed group, the group may shift and change its size
        Tui (pushing/extending out)
  3. Elastic
  4. sensitive to change in human relationship
2. individual makes contact with another at different place/time
  1. Thus, individuals have distinctive web of social relationship/ set of relatives
    1. linked with kinship specific to one person
3. Lun
  1. order based on classification
    1. "everyone should stay in his place"
    2. framework of social structure is unchangeable
belief system in which allows Individuals to have their own character
Reason why Confucianism was difficult to maintain
1. Hundred School of Thought
  1. overflowing opinions and character of individual
centrality/egocentrism
1. "control oneself and conform to rituals"
2. "self-restraint, one cultivates moral character"/control over inner self
3. self is always in the center of everything
  1. boundary between public and private
Everything under Heaven (tianxia)
confucious seldom
1. Benevolence (ren)
  1. from benevolence one will obtain earnestness, consideration for others, trustworthiness, diligence, and generosity
  2. logical synthesis
  3. ethical principle of individual relationship
    1. filial piety, fraternal duty, loyalty, and sincerity.
2. Profit
3. Destiny

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