Confucian Ethics

• Main Author: TAN, Sor-hoon
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2023
• Subjects: Confucianism; ethics; virtues; relationality; filiality; humaneness; ritual practice; wisdom; trustworthiness; Asian History; Asian Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3906
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Confucian ethics is a relational ethics in which both virtues and roles are important factors in how one lives well through one’s relations with others, but it also employs rules to guide behaviour and pays attention to consequences of actions. Confucius taught his students about the ethical conduct...