Transformation And Adjustment Of Chinese Traditional Family Ethics

Liu Shi-pei has a short life,inherites the family edcation from childhood,and has rich knowledge.Although he was born in a Confucian classics studies family,but his study on ethical thought is unique.His book "Ethical textbook" is the collection of modern ethical thought,embodies the modern new ethics,is also the modern sense of the first book on ethics.The book is rich in content,but because of the time and effort,this paper only focuses on Liu Shi-pei’s family ethical thought.This paper is divided into five parts,the first chapter is the introduction part,Introduces Liu’s life and ethical book,later generations for his evaluation,and the research status and research ideas of this paper.The second chapter "Ethical textbook" prevue part,Introduces the time background,writing background,the basic content and main features of the book.The third chapter "family ethics",the chapter centres on the construction basis of traditional family ethic order,this paper respectively discusses three main relationship in the family ethics:relationship between father and son,relationship between husband and wife, relationship between brothers.He realized that each relationship is the role of political ideology and used by the authority,this is completely distorted the true spirit of Confucianism.By comparing the differences, Liu hopes to build a family ethics relationship with no ruling class’s will.The fourth chapter "transformation and adjustment",analysises Liu’s identification of the traditional family ethics order,and how to combine Chinese and western theories of the traditional family ethics to interpretation and adjustment,He promotes democracy,freedom,equal rights and obligations(each other as Aaron) of ethical thought.This is the new family ethics with modern significance,promotes the progress and spread of ethical thought.The fifth chapter is conclusion,throughout Liu’s life,although influenced by history and revolution,and his certain limitations leads to the incomplete of family ethics reconstruction,but we can’t deny his keen insight of ethics,front ahead of idea.He opened up a new path for the family ethics,we should affirm its historical status.