The Signification of Confucian Ethics of Virtue in Contemporary Theory
Abstract
In the West the ancient, traditional virtue ethics is based on the ancient hope of Aristotle as the representative of the Prince, the contemporary revival of virtue ethics is also the West, mainly from Aristotle to seek intellectual resources. Virtue Ethics to the actors or the actors as the central basis of the center of attention is the human good and happiness, and virtue is its central areas. What people or what people should be the primary research study is the task of virtue ethics, from the person is or what should be among the people should come to do the act required. From the person's moral requirements sense, the traditional Chinese Confucian virtue ethics from the exemplary to give a very rich, different from the West to explore. What is a Chinese virtue as ethics research center, and therefore has a very rich corresponding virtues. This contemporary virtue ethics and contemporary Chinese building general theory of virtue ethics provides a valuable resource. In ancient Western, Aristotle is the represent of traditional virtue ethics and the contemporary revivification of Western ethics of virtue found its resources mainly from Aristotle. Virtue ethics take agent as its center or as its ground and good and happiness of human being as its main concern , and virtue is its centre concenpt. What is human or what human beings should become to, which are the primary task for virtue ethics. The demands for actions come from what is human or human beings should become to. Confucian ethics of virtue studied fully of what kind of person is one moral man , and the way is totally different from Western one. The center of Chinese traditional ethics of virtue is that what human beings should become to and therefore it has rich ideas about virtues. We can find one different resource for our construction of Chinese ethics of virtue and theory of virtue ethics in general ..