Confucian Teachings on the Moral Self-cultivation  

作　　者：HU Lijun PU Jingxin 

机构地区：[1]Chinese Culture Academy,San Diego,USA [2]Nanjing University of Finance and Economics,Nanjing,China

出　　处：《US-China Education Review(A)》2024年第3期170-179,共10页美中教育评论（A）

摘　　要：Confucian Philosophy regards morality as the most important thing for human being.Confucians claim that every human being can be transformed into moral being through self-cultivation in moral education and also ritual practice.That moral education is not for a short term,but for a long time in the moral formation,which teaches human being moral knowledge and also cultivates their moral heart into a full degree.This moral self-cultivation requires piety as a prerequisite condition in entering the moral horizon,and it also requires self-control in human tempers.The ritual practice is observed by the ritual officials which guarantee moral action in reality in the last sense.This morality is not for something beyond,but for the sake of morality itself.This kind of moral tradition is from the Sage-Kings Yao,Shun,Yu,etc.,which already lasted thousands of years;therefore,Confucians established their moral philosophy from that moral history.

关 键 词：MORALITY SELF-CULTIVATION PIETY RITUAL moral education 

分 类 号：K89[历史地理—民俗学]