Wisdom, Benevolence And Courage: On The Tri-unity Of Achieved Virtues Of Zhongyong

This essay is on how the Tri-unity of Achieved Virtues, Wisdom, Benevolence and Courage reach Zhongyong. The way to resolve the problem needs the understanding of the meaning of Zhongyong, the Tri-unity of Achieved Virtues and the accessible method between them. This essay is based on the thinking route.It consists of three parts.The first part is about how the concept of Zhongyong developed from ethics category to ontology category. Heaven gives Sincerity, which is absolutely true without any deception and can create and cultivate all things to human beings and make them own the nature from heaven. The concept of Zhong contains the meaning of the nature from heaven before feeling such as happy, anger, sadness and satisfaction happens, which is the foundation of the world and never depends on other things .The concept of He means when the feeling such as happy, anger, sadness and satisfaction happens, human beings can live together in harmony with each other by developing the nature fully and can make all things obtain proper position.The second part is about the meaning of Wisdom, Benevolence and Courage. In the system of the Tri-unity of Achieved Virtues, they mean knowing virtue, holding virtue and persisting virtue respectively.The last part is about how they can reach each other, try to realize Sincerity as a whole and approach Sincerity in the end. By fully developing their nature, fully developing the nature of others and fully developing the nature of things, human beings can make all things present themselves and attain their proper order and assist the transforming, nourishing work of heaven and earth and make all things flourish at last. In this perspective, Wisdom, Benevolence and Courage as the Tri-unity of Achieved Virtue provide the foundation for Zhongyong.