A Study Of Confucian Filial Piety From The Perspective Of Confucian Role Ethics

Filial piety is a phenomenon that exists only in human beings.Its formation has a process of continuous enrichment and evolution.Before Confucius,filial piety gradually changed from a moral consciousness to a moral standard.Confucius was in an era where society was out of order and morality was lost,he hoped to correct the chaotic social order through the reconstruction of the inner moral order,and the implementation of filial piety was the best entry point.So he based on the social realities needs of the time and put forward opinions on filial piety based on the ideas of predecessors.And advocates,a comprehensive and complete discussion of filial piety,built a set of universal ethics around filial piety.Since then,the concept of filial piety has become the core of Chinese traditional ethics.The Confucian role ethics proposed by the Sinologist Roger T.Ames criticizes the individualism of the West,emphasizing that human beings are the existence of relations,emphasizing the beginning of the family as a whole and changing narrative understanding of human beings,and steadily improving the specific Interpersonal relationships,and gradually extended outward,from local and specific relationships to broad relationships,and ultimately strengthen the link between the entire society.Interpretation of Confucius' filial piety thought from the perspective of Confucian role ethics restores family relationship as a source of virtue and endless life in human society.In order to make the family prosper,filial piety is essential.Both children and parents should fulfill their role responsibilities in the family,so that the role can be maximized,and the individual's self-cultivation and outward expansion can be promoted.Fraternity,friends,and loyalty are extended from filial piety.The extension of filial piety is actually an extension of the love of the dear,and the ultimate goal is to reach the realm of the benevolent people.Filial piety is the foundation of doing business,and family is the starting point for improving moral ability.Etiquette and body are the driving force of filial piety as intergenerational inheritance.They not only provide external norms for filial piety itself but also for the extension of filial piety,so that people's identity and relationship can be properly presented.At the same time,the continuity of the family pedigree is guaranteed in the process of blood transmission and cultural inheritance.Although filial piety is based on family emotions,people must transcend family emotions and extend filial piety to a larger scope to achieve the realm of “one family in the world” and “one thing in all things”.