Title: Construction and corrupt practices of Confucian morality of law——an illustration by Confucian family morality of law
Abstract: The thoutht at the core of the construction of Confucian morality of law is that love has different orders and degrees, including differences in application to people of different social status, intelligence, blood lineages, etc. Confucius summarized the family morality of law from the three generations, and Mencius advanced theWu lun Theory. The Confucian morality of law constructed has a purpose that the morality of law comes from benevolence and is formed by benevolence,and the morality law must reflect the benevolence and cann't weakened it. But some Confucian thinkers in Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty deviated from the purpose, and some of its principles. The Confucian morality of law was constructed on the base of normal human feelings and spiritual ideas, following traits that peculiarity morality of law took priority for general morality of law, with the reality and the appriorism contained, and that logical starting point(deontological theories ) deviated from the pracitce (teleological theories). The Confucian morality of law is faced with the destiny of un-construction in modern times.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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