Title: The Place of Knowledge and Morality——A Study of the Inner Logic of "Learning" in The Analects of Confucius
Abstract: As for the priority and the right place of knowledge and morality,the value orientation is different between the West and the East.The inner logic in The Analects of Confucius provides an answer for those questions;however,it is almost neglected.While Confucius claimed the priority of morality value,he did not refuse the value of knowledge as the later Confucians had thought.Confucius believes that knowledge is separated but also integrated with morality;knowledge and morality value are coexisted but could be against each other in reality.Correctly grasping the priority and interactive relations between them is the right way to place morality and knowledge value.It is wrong for the later Confucians to choose one side of Confucius's ideas and make morality the only content of learning.The critique of the Confucian culture against science and rationality has become popular since modern age as knowledge value had been obscured by the illumination of morality,Then,restoring the original ideas of Confucius not only clears away the mist around Confucius,but also provides a correct way to solve the state of morality value being neutralized by knowledge value.
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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