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- Title
The historic turn of the Confucian destiny from "not being used" to "being valued"--An analysis of the dilemma between filial piety and loyalty.
- Authors
Qingping LIU
- Abstract
There is a strange and yet seldom persuasively explained phenomenon in the hisrory of Confucianism: While Kongzi and Mengzi were rarely pur in an important position by their contemporary rulers when they were alive? so many Confucians have been pur in very important positions in more than two thousand years since the Han Dynasty? even if they cannot be compared favorably with Kongzi and Mengzi ar all. The basic reason for this dramatic turn lies in the two different attitudes towards the dilemma between filial piety and loyalry : Kongzi and Mengzi usually placed filial piety above loyalty in the ease of conflict and demanded that people should choose filial piety to their parents at the cost of loyalty to their rulers? whereas Xunzi and Dong Zhongshu demanded that people should choose loyalry to their rulers ar the cost of filial piety to their parents in the case of conflict according to the principle of "loyalty to the ruler is the greatest".
- Subjects
FILIAL piety; CONFUCIANISM -- History; HAN dynasty, China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.; KINGS &; rulers; LOYALTY
- Publication
International Journal of Sino-Western Studies, 2019, Vol 17, p19
- ISSN
1799-8204
- Publication type
Article