Historical Reflection And Modern Transformation Of Confucian Doctrine Of Filial Piety And Fraternal Duty

The doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty, the core of Confucian culture, is the most distinctive part in Chinese virtues and also the general and permanent morality for entire Chinese people. Nowadays, in the process of building a moderately prosperous society as well as a harmonious socialist one in an all-rounded way, the social economy, politics, and culture have been developed prominently, and people's ideas and lifestyles have also been changed a lot. Under the guidance of"discarding the dross and selecting the essence", carrying on and promoting the traditional confucian doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty is of great theoretical and practical significance in improving people's moral qualities, establishing harmonious interpersonal relationships and families, and developing social stability and harmony.With the reference to the historical materials and the guidance of materialist conception of history, the paper, in which the method of historical and logic unification and analysis through comparison and research are used to organize the idea of the confucian doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty systematically, has traced the idea to the source, and emphasizes on its basic meanings and developing process in order to expound its core position in Confucianism. It has also discussed the relationship between the doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty and Chinese culture and pointed the doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty is main embodiment of Chinese traditional virtues, and has interpreted how filial piety and fraternal duty impact the traditional Chinese society as well. What's more, the paper has analyzed the essence and dross of the idea; and based on theoretical elaborations, it has raised the necessity that the content of the idea should not only adapt to the development of the era, but also vary with the era changes. And on account of this necessity, the paper has put forward principles and approaches to modernly transform the doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty.The novelty is that the paper has explored the modern transformation of he doctrine of filial piety and fraternal duty concretely, especially has achieved the modern transformation for contents and modes .