With regard to human virtue, Confucius emphasized benevolence, and benevolence was its characteristic. Righteousness is the "appropriate" of things, that is, "should". This is absolute.
Orders. Everyone in society has something to do and must do it in order to do it, because doing these things is moral.
That's right. If you do these things only for immoral reasons, even if you do what you should do, this behavior is not just.
Because. A word that is often despised by Confucius and later Confucianism is "Li". In Confucianism, righteousness
And profit are the opposite. Confucius himself said, "A gentleman is figurative, while a villain is figurative." ("The Analects of Confucius")
What later Confucianists called "the distinction between righteousness and benefit" appeared, which they thought was extremely important in moral theory.
Want it.
The concept of righteousness is a concept of form, while the concept of benevolence is much more specific. The essence of people's obligations in society is
They "should" because these obligations are what he should do. But the concrete essence of these obligations is "love"
People "is" benevolence ". Father loves son, and son loves father. A student asked what benevolence was, and Confucius said:
Love (on Yan Yuan). A true lover is a person who can fulfill social obligations. So in the Analects of Confucius,
It can be seen that sometimes Confucius uses the word "benevolence", which not only refers to a special virtue, but also refers to the sum of all virtues. place
The word "kind man" is synonymous with all virtuous people. In this case. "Benevolence" can be translated as perfectvirtue.