What is philosophy as
demonstrated in Ancient Chinese Philosophy by Confucius in the way he characterizes
the ideal human being.
The philosophy is
instilling the traits of ideal human being to yourself. When you have the
traits of the ideal human being, you will start to create a harmonious society.
If one puts Jen as a cardinal virtue to himself, he will always be good to
others because Jen means love, when one loves others, it means that he will not
do a thing to hurt him but he will do good things to him. Hsiao makes a person be
respectful to others because if one practiced filial piety within his home, he will
always bring it whenever place he may be. He will always respect others because
he practiced it at home and when one respect others, it is a trait of being
good and when one respect others, they will respect you back and when both of
you respected each other, it will create harmony in both of you and there will
be no harm. T’I also makes a person respectful to others and as I have
said, when one pays respect, he will also beget respect and when both respect
each other; there will be harmony in both of them. Chung makes a person
faithful to others or it makes a person to be faithful to others when one is
faithful to others, he will never do harm to them. Faithfulness begets respect,
if a person sees you as a faithful man, he will respect you and be good to you,
when both of you are good to each other, both of you will create harmony. Altruism
makes a person becomes unselfish and always available for others. When
one always helps, he will be admired by everyone and if everyone sees or notices
his doings, they will also start to be available for others and becomes
unselfish, it is so pleasant to see that everyone is helping each other and
does not hurt each other, which would create harmony in them.
When one is
Righteous or possesses Yi, he knows how to act properly or
what to do because he knows what is right, and when one knows what is right, he
will not create harm to others because he knows that harming others is not the
right thing to do.
Propriety or Li
is really good when being act upon because propriety is doing the things which
is actually good or morally accepted and things that are morally accepted is
usually good and does benefit everyone. When one do knows that the thing he is
doing is morally good, it means that the thing he is doing is not hurting
someone but rather it benefits someone. When one does always do good things, he
will be appreciated by other, and others will also do good things, which would
eventually create a harmony to them.
When one has the
Wisdom or Chih, he is understood to have knowledge of things and having
the knowledge of many things means having the knowledge wether the act or thing
is good or bad, when he has the knowledge that the act or things is bad, he
would actually not do it because first and foremost he knew that is is not the
proper thing to do, so he would actually do the good things because he knew
that it is good and would benefit everyone from it. And when one has the
knowledge of good things, he will apply it to others and when others feel that
you are doing good, they will also do good things and when all of you do good
things, it will create a harmony between them.
Therefore when
one has the characteristic of the ideal man, he would actually be followed by
others because other will see what would be the effect when doing good things
and when all will instill in their self the characteristic of the noble man,
they will always do the good things and it will make the society harmonious and
harmony will be felt by everyone which makes, instilling the traits of ideal
human being to yourself the philosophy as demonstrated in Ancient Chinese
Philosophy by Confucius in the way he characterizes the ideal human being.
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