Hermeneutics Explaination of the Core Notion of the Analects of Confucius: Ren

Modern Philosophy 5:57-61 (2007)
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The purpose of Confucianism and the core concept is "benevolence." "Benevolence" is defined in the class nature of man to man, and laid a Confucian moral person of the basic direction. Benevolent love, Kejifuli, filial piety-oriented, for the kernel by himself, constitutes a "benevolence" of the four-fold meaning. "Benevolence" unifying "Christine, width, letter, Min-Hui" Zhu De and the Confucian ideal of virtue. The core notion and tenet of Confucius doctrine is Ren , which can be definited as the generic essence of human being and which laid a foundation of the basic direction of Confucian moral hominology. The person of benevolence loves others, makes continence and have good manners, makes filial piety as the principle of a human being and achieves benevolence on oneself, which make up of the fourfold connotations of Ren. Ren has Gong , Kuan , Xin , Min , Hui as well as the doctine of Moral administration

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