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Confucius Religion
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a king is the leader of all the subjects. The chief virtue in a king should be beneficence. An individual should give respect to both the father and the king and should serve them with fullest devotion
“The kind of love which I expect from my son, the same kind of love and service I should have for my father. And the kind of loyal service which I expect from my subordinate officers, the same kind of service I should do to my king. The kind of service which I might be expecting from my younger brother, the same warmth of behavior I must show to my elder brother.”
In the behaviour of an itelligent person, generally, the following 5 virtues are being explicitly expressed : (1) selfrespect, (2) generosity (3) frankness, (4) seriousness and (5) benevolence or doing good to others.
The noblest man acts before he speaks and he advises others to do only that much what he has done. Thus, there is perfect co-ordination or unity between his thought, speech and action, or behaviour. His sense of duty is extremely sharp. He expresses it selflessly. The Ideal of the noblest man :
Confucius, describing the ideal of the best man, has written :
Such a man... (1) Remains free from the prejudices of loving one side and
hating the other. (2) He is calm and composed. (3) He does not have either sorrowfulness or fear. (4) He should not put more emphasis on the honour or pride
of good virtues and on bad vices.
