其他摘要：Shun was a sage respected by Confucius and Mencius. Confucius and Mencius discussed shun with “great family reverence”. Mencius believed that the sage was the most perfect personality, and shun had done a proper job in all aspects of human ethics. The Confucian doctrine of “authoritative conduct and appropriateness” is closely related to the human ethics of the parents and elder brother. As the root of authoritative conduct, family reverence plays a fundamental role in concrete moral practice. Great family reverence embodies the principle of “acting authoritatively by oneself”, specifically speaking, that is, whether their parents are wise or foolish, alive or dead, unilaterally abide by their obligations, perform their own virtue, in the complex and changeable emotional relationships consciously recognize the “reason” or “way” of life, to close to the middle way of practical wisdom treating the family.
