Title: Confucian Filial Piety and the Harmonious Society
Abstract: One of the important propositions of Confucianism is filial piety,which holds that the offspring must repay an obligation to the parents who nurture and bring them up by providing the old with livelihood necessities and spiritual comfort and by ensuring that the parents are free from anxiety about the offspring's words and deeds.A harmonious society requires the harmony of relations in any aspect especially the neighborhood and household relations so that the society can develop stably and in good order.In the present society,however, some people are indifferent about or even completely lose filial piety,the result of which is the rise of some social problems.The timely putting forward and advocating the Confucian filial piety ethic will undoubtedly benefit the stability of a harmonious society.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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