Many people don't understand this truth, thinking that as long as it is moral, they should unswervingly do it, and they must do it to the extreme. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The reason why human beings respect morality is because morality makes people honest and friendly with each other, and the spirit is comfortable, and morality is not human instinct, but a kind of behavior.

It is not surprising that people sacrifice their lives because of their adherence to morality, and Confucius said, 'A man with lofty ideals and benevolence does not seek to survive to harm benevolence, but kills to become benevolent'. Mencius said, 'Life is also what I want, righteousness is also what I want, you can't have both, and those who sacrifice their lives to take righteousness are also'."

Confucius and Mencius regarded benevolence and righteousness as more important than life, because benevolence and righteousness are not only one's own morality, but also the axiom of society.

Tai Shi Gong said, 'Death is heavier than Mount Tai, and some are lighter than feathers'. Only when the cause of death is valuable, can this morality be established.

As the saying goes, 'die as you deserve'. Wenwen Mountain poem, 'Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat'. Morality is more important than life, but moral death must have a value beyond one's own life, otherwise it is lighter than a feather and cannot become a model.

There was a Bo Ji in the Spring and Autumn Lu Kingdom, and one night there was a fire in the palace, and she insisted on the morality of not coming to the house and not going to the court at night, and was burned to death.

Lu is the country with the most complete preservation of Zhou rites, but it doesn't seem to have considered what to do when there is a fire at night, and as a result, this old lady who admits death has become a martyr for the rites.

But even if the emergency measures are written, if it is not a fire or a heavy flood, Berge will still be killed. Ritual law is dead, people are alive, and ritual law can only stipulate general circumstances, and cannot indicate special circumstances one by one. When it comes to accidents, it's up to each individual to weigh the severity.

The ancients paid attention to private morality, and people often said that public morality. Some people regard morality as their own cultivation, and this leads to extreme morality and absolute morality.

Oyu and Boji are both people with high personal morality, but they only seem to know how to talk about morality, and they don't know why they should talk about morality. Morality is not only their own business, but the way people get along with each other, loyalty, filial piety, moderation, righteousness are derived from the responsibility to others, the monarch is loyal, the father and son are filial, the husband and wife are the festival, the friend is righteous, because morality is the matter of both sides, so it should be just right, otherwise the more one party talks about morality, the other party will become immoral.

Guan Longfeng, Bi Gan, and Yue Fei were all famous loyal ministers, and Xia Wei, Shang Xuan, and Song Gaozong became the tyrannical kings, and Zigong said, 'Shang's sins are not so serious, because his reputation is bad, and many evil things will be added to his head. ’

Da Shun and Shen Sheng are both filial sons, and it is difficult for Yu Su and Jin Xiangong to escape the blame of unkindness. Zhongxia attaches great importance to filial piety, and the Yuan people have compiled a twenty-four filial piety, which has the nature of a textbook. There are many reluctant stories of tasting feces and burying sons, and if you want to compile twenty-four ci, I am afraid that these stories are not appropriate.

Tail and Bo Ji only know that they have to be trustworthy and righteous, but they don't know how to imagine from the other side, the woman who met in Oji, and the Fu mother who Bo Ji is waiting for, won't they have to feel guilty for life?

Zigong did good deeds, don't be paid, Confucius criticized him and said, if you do this, no one will be willing to do good deeds in the future. Morality is not simply a personal matter, but an appropriate way of behavior between people, a person handles it well, it will have an exemplary role, and others will imitate him. This is what moral education is all about.

Zilu asked Confucius about his ambitions, and Confucius said, 'The old man is safe, the friend believes in him, and the young man cherishes him'. It means that everyone will like him and trust him.

This sentence sounds a little incredible at first glance, generally speaking, it is impossible for people to make everyone respect and like, and people who have no morals and fake morals can't be liked.

The ancients set up Oyo and Bo Ji as moral models, but in essence, these two people are stubborn people, and they do not have the value of imitation. Later generations of famous people refer to useless, and even regard virtue and talent as things that hinder each other, Zhongxia has talked about morality for thousands of years, but does not know that morality also needs to be regulated by the mean, Taoists pay attention to extreme morality, and want to 'save heavenly principles and destroy people's desires'. The argument that religion cannibalism cannot be said to be completely unfounded.

Confucius said, "Words must be believed, deeds must be fruitful, and you are a villain!" Mencius said from the opposite side, "Adults do not have to believe in their words, and they do not have to be fruitful in their deeds, but where the righteousness lies." ”

Confucius and Mencius were both indisputable saints of Confucianism, and neither of them agreed with extreme morality and absolute morality.

Since the beginning of Western learning from the East, people have welcomed the new morality, calling the old morality the old morality, and all of them have been swept away. Loyalty, filial piety, moderation, and righteousness are fundamentally shaken, but in fact they have not escaped the concept of moral perfection. There is no distinction between the old and the new in morality, but after the prevalence of science, extreme morality and absolute morality were emphasized, but the result became a bad morality that was not close to human feelings.

Morality is to raise people, not to harm people, let alone eat people, Zhu Zi singled out the university and the mean from the "Book of Rites", and the Analects, Mencius listed it as the four books, which is really insightful. It's a pity that the mean is difficult to grasp, Confucius said, 'The white blade can be done, but the mean is impossible'. Coupled with the passive avoidance of Buddhism and Taoism, Confucianism has fallen into a stubborn and conservative situation.

The golden mean is difficult to grasp because it requires some emotional intelligence, not simply abide by some rules and precepts, Lao Tzu said, I have three treasures, 'one is benevolent, two is thrifty, and three is not afraid to be the first in the world', Confucius will not say so, Confucius said, 'nothing is indispensable', but to 'the old man is safe, friends believe in it, and the young man has it', which requires the interpersonal relationship to be handled just right.

Confucius said that killing oneself becomes benevolence, Mencius said, sacrificing one's life for righteousness, that is, putting morality and righteousness above life, and both Osheng and Bo Ji lost their lives for keeping morality, but they are not worth emulating.

Mencius said that gold is heavier than feathers, is it a conclusion that a golden hook is compared with a cart of feathers?

'You can die, you can't die, you can die bravely'. Morality is more important than life, but it is not for people to die for morality in vain, theorists say, 'starvation is a small matter, and failure to live is a big matter'.

Su Wu fell into the Xiongnu, shepherded sheep in Beihai for 18 years, ate snow and felt, and did not change his integrity, measured by these words, it was good. It would be a bit impersonal to use these words to criticize some weak women.

Therefore, virtue and talent, morality and talent are really not two things that eliminate each other's strengths and hinder each other. There must be talent, and there must be virtue, but there is a difference between virtue and talent, good and bad. (To be continued.) )