Description

This book takes Confucian ethics as the main line, time and space as the longitude and latitude, and concisely demonstrates the changes of Chinese traditional ethics and their modern values. Its connotation starts from the basic moral norms of "five Ethics" and "five Virtues", and from the multi-dimensional perspectives of self-cultivation, family ethics, social ethics, political ethics, and environmental ethics. It highlights the core characteristics of the integration of individual virtues and public morals, such as benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, courtesy, leniency, faith, sensitivity, earnestness, kindness, goodness, virtue, and conduct, and discusses the ethical requirements of loyalty, harmony, filial piety, fraternity, and bravery, which are constantly gaining and losing with the changes of the times. This book focuses on the vitality of Chinese ethical innovation in the context of globalization and modernization, showing how it demonstrates its value in the complex process of dialogue with other civilizations in the world and interaction between China and foreign countries, and how it contributes to the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind and the promotion of world peace and prosperity.