Confucius And Mencius' Ethical Thoughts And Their Modern Significance

Confucius as the founder of Confucianism, for the first time will develop excellent characteristics of "benevolence" as the core of his thought system, its surrounding the "benevolence" in the design of the ideal personality and accomplishment method of interpreting, is designed to allow the return of the virtue and improving the quality of the main body of moral. Mencius inherited the thought of Confucius, all the way from internality unearthed a source of moral "heart", fundamentally affirmation of the goodness of people, at the same time the initiative of moral responsibility and achieve transcendence moral pursuit of consciousness into a new historical height.In this paper, from the view of human nature, ideal personality, moral realm of Confucius moral ideological system and cultivation, and other aspects the basic content of the overall grasp and in-depth analysis, with the unique viewpoint of virtue ethics which contain related content has carried on the detailed inspection, the characteristic of virtue not only consciously analyze the logical relationship between the important concept, thus to be interpreted as a complete structure, the logical thought system, but also for its deep connotation has carried on the beneficial to today’s practice mining in different degrees. Respectively in the normative ethics and virtue ethics based on the analysis of the limitations of itself, expounds the theory structure of Confucius Confucianism unique patterns, reveals its theoretical harmony wisdom, in comparing Chinese and western cultural traditions, highlights the Confucius and Confucianism virtue, your ethics and go beyond the spirit of quality,thus reveals the relatively complete meaning on its intrinsic value.Based on western the revival of virtue ethics and moral practice in contemporary China, Singapore as the breakthrough point, first of all, summarizes the general characteristics of virtue ethics, and then to the historical evolution of the meaning of "virtue" as the logical starting point, the theoretical foundation and basic content of Confucius virtue ethics in detail, after clarify Confucius Confucianism’s influence on the later Confucianism, focus on elucidating the development andinnovation of modern theory of enlightenment, stressed the "DE of ethics" responsibility ethics thought and transcendent pursuit for modern ease tense relationship, search for the meaning of life and settle the realistic significance of the soul. Confucius ethics both virtue, features and rules of consciousness, the individual is in "benevolence" and "the ritual" the conscious practice of implementation of the mandate of heaven put insight and ideal personality. Article argues that in China, the nation has always attaches great importance to the cultivation of virtue, the cultivation of moral quality relies on the inheritance of traditional virtue and maintain, only blend in national character of the spirit of life of their own blood and way of life, can truly become a German man, can have the identity of the Chinese civilization, can eventually find their own living.