Robert Oxnam :: Respect for one's parents, filial piety, is considered the most fundamental of the Confucian values, the root of all others. Wm. Theodore de Bary :: Almost everyone is familiar with ...

Confucius probably took for granted these sorts of attitudes toward women, common in his society. He greatly esteemed ancestral rites and related family virtues such as filial piety. He hoped that ...

Confucianism is often caricatured as being hierarchical, authoritarian, misogynistic, and dogmatic. I too once shared this view and thought it was concerned exclusively with hierarchies and social ...

But some scholars have made the point that the ethics of at least three of the big Eastern traditions, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, also share a family resemblance with virtue ethics.

In other words, according to Confucianism, genuinely fulfilling lives involve developing virtues such as loyalty or respect towards others rather than going it alone all the time. Although ...

As the founder of Confucian culture ... His ideologies include the five virtues of human duty-kindness, uprightness, decorum, wisdom and faithfulness. Another of his concepts is that one should ...

This research project focuses on the ethical teachings of Confucius, Mencius, and Mozi, examining the contending theories of the three great thinkers by delving into canonical texts—the Analects, the ...