Interfaith Far Eastern Religions Summary

Author(s): Pravin K Shah
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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Confucianism – Goal - To create true nobility through proper education and the
inculcation of all the virtues. • To return to the way of one's ancestors and to discover the
ancient way of virtue. -Spiritual nobility and moral achievement are attainable by all men and seen in a wise person. - Wise man's greatest virtues are benevolent love, duty, wisdom,
truth, and propriety. -Wise man always knows what is right and follows his
knowledge. -Confucius accepted the Tao (mysticism) but emphasized on the return to an idealized age and the cultivation of the wise man and on the pragmatic rather than the mystical. -Salvation is seen as realizing and living one's natural goodness, which is endowed by heaven through education.