On The Ethical Thoughts Of "Taiping Scriptures"

The important classic of early Taoism Taiping Scriptures was saturated with a strong ethical and moral spirit, it could be rated as a masterpiece of both moralization of religion and religionization of morality. It attempted to achieve the social moral ideals of "peace", "goodness", "harmony and integrity", which was by"conducting oneself in practicing", "religious teaching", and "bearing retribution".The moral and political combination was the most concerned ethical issues in Taiping Scriptures and its political ethics mainly covered three lays:the pursuit of justice, benevolent idea and professional ethics as officials. The pursuit of justice mainly displayed as "equal wealth", "reasonable appointment of the competent". Benevolent idea was composed of "penalty reduce and moral advocate", "govern by non-interference", "people-centred", and "grace to the minority ". Professional ethics as officials consist of "sovereign moral", "liegeman moral".The life value objective of Taiping Scriptures had easy to difficult levels displayed as "fewer disease and more health "→" self-cultivation and country-governing accord "→"longevity and immortality ". Its life ethics content was primarily composed of three aspects, i.e. "emphasis on human life", "respect for Yin and Yang", and "more population for rejuvenating ". Means of its realization were mainly two ways: self-discipline and religious heteronomy, substantialised as "strive to learn the truth", "meditation", and "doing good and stopping evil".The ecological ethics of Taiping Scriptures mainly was composed of by three parts:theological world view, ecological ethics code, ecological ethics vision. In its theological world view, there were not only religious "heaven father and earth mother ", naive materialism of "natural vitality", but also the traditional anthropocentric "human is the master". In the ecological ethics codes of Taiping Scriptures, especially significant were the three aspects "prevent life from killing", "follow the rules of engagement" and "protection of resources". Taiping Scriptures had ecological ethics vision of " all things security as world coordinate ", was mainly displayed as "things get their proper placement", "wonderful wonderland", and "world security ensures long-term peace".Moral Education of Taiping Scriptures was also rich and varied, and fully embodied an important feature of "put Confucianism into Taoism". Taking the content of "filial and loyalty for the first", "respect for teachers as a father," and "honesty is anxious" as moral education, by the ways of "tend to the right to remove errors", "repentance and goodness", and " rules instead of heaven", Taiping Scriptures were to achieve the moral aims of education, which were "personality development", "culture sages and talent", and "rule the world with moral".In the formation process of Chinese Taoist, Taiping Scriptures occupied an important position. Its ethical thoughts core was worthy to inherit and learn from critically, and to some extent made up for the lack of "modern social morality".