“Confucian

Ethics:
heartedness,
kindness, and
benevolence”
Rex Bryann C. Zambra
AB-PHILO 2
 “Confucian Ethics: heartedness, kindness, and benevolence”

In these present days, heartedness, kindness, and benevolence doesn’t seem to

appear in others due to what they experienced, the attitude of obedience, commitment,

and care toward one's parents and elder relatives that is the premise of individual good

lead and social harmony. Filial devotion isn't basic dutifulness yet rather reverence.

Most Western traditions in my perspective including the commandment or the Christ-like

to "honor your parents." The non-Confucian perspectives have never embraced the

worship and regard educated to us by Confucius. After arriving at parenthood, we

become responsible for the significant choices of our life. In the event that our parents

disagree with or support those life decisions because we pursue our passion, while that

might be a possibility of regretting, we considered that we had the moral and intellectual

duty to settle on and live by our own decisions because it is what we want. Frequently,

in the west in my perspective, grown-up children of their aging parents they do make

genuine financial and way of life penances to oblige the wellbeing or monetary needs of

their parents, although just some think of it as an ethical commitment. The comparative

perspective between the Confucian and the Western perspectives on dutiful devotion on

our life is by a veritable instance of social relativity. Since the goal of Confucian ethics is

for us to be a good citizen, to be a morally good person, to educate people with good

deeds with good manners and right conduct when it comes to formal events, important

occasions that is being needed, and also to venture for knowledge of our actions on

what Confucius said “Knowledge is the beginning of action and action if the completion

of knowledge”. We call something right or wrong according to whether or not it helps

achieve our moral values based on The Golden Rule—Do to others as you want others

to do to you In my point of view, the Rule's directive straightforwardness envelops the

unpredictability, levels of importance, which are revealed in societies and scholarly

teaches any place the Rule has been contemplated. The particular social and

disciplinary difficulties which have been met with the assistance of the Golden Rule

have each additional implication to the Rule that become, through instruction, the basic

legacy of mankind which this is the very theme of the Confucian Ethics. We cannot say

“do unto others what they do unto to you” because this will be an eye for an eye and a

tooth for tooth. If this will be the case well everybody will be blind and become toothless.

We can't say also that “do it unto others before they do it unto you” because this will be

an act of selfishness and competition of the wrong interpretation of the Golden Rule. We

glimpse life in the Golden Rule. It can't be caught in a static translation, since it draws in

the mindful practitioner in a cycle of development. To tail it to the end is to move from

selfishness to compassion, to hone moral instinct by reason, and to discover

satisfaction past obligation cognizant guideline following in unconstrained, adoring

assistance. The solidarity of the Rule, in the midst of its wide assorted variety, is its

capacity as an image of this cycle of development. Whoever rehearses the Golden Rule

opens oneself to a cycle of progress. Relinquishing self to relate to another individual, or

with a third-individual point of view on a mind-boggling circumstance, or with a perfect

worldview, permits an unobtrusive and steady change to continue, a change with

splendid trust in the individual and the planet. The Rule starts by recommending that the

manner in which the specialist needs to be dealt with can work as a norm of direct;

however, by putting the other on a standard with oneself, the Rule draws in the operator
in approximating a higher viewpoint from which the connection of humankind gets

apparent. Confucian Ethics made me taught how to be a good and morally disciplined

individual, and also the decisions we made, we must think it carefully.