Confucian Teaching Rests On Three Essential Values: Filial Piety, Humaneness, and
Confucian Teaching Rests On Three Essential Values: Filial Piety, Humaneness, and
Confucian Teaching Rests On Three Essential Values: Filial Piety, Humaneness, and
Confucian teaching rests on three essential values: Filial piety, humaneness, and
ritual. The Confucian value system may be likened in some ways to a tripod, which is
one of the great vessels of the Shang and Zhou Period and a motif that reoccurs in later
Chinese arts.
The worldly concern of Confucianism rests upon the belief that human beings are
fundamentally good, and teachable, improvable, and perfectible through personal and
communal endeavor, especially self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucian thought
focuses on the cultivation of virtue in a morally organised world.
(4) Respect for age: age gives all things their worth: objects, institutions, and individual
lives. 4. Second Sense of li: principle of social order; ritual; ordering of life; conforming
to the norms of jen (the limits and authenticity of li). a.