Describe the Confucian reformations of ancient Chinese teachings.
What will be an ideal response?
The Confucian reworking of ancient Chinese teachings centered on ethics—what the Western tradition calls "personal ethics" and "social ethics." Confucianism is often called a system of social ethics, and from the Western perspective that is true enough, but we should remember that this distinction between "personal" and "social" is not often made in China. It does not make a great deal of sense in a culture where the personal and the social are so fully blended, and where Western-style individualism is rejected.
Confucius's system sought to reform traditional Chinese religious and ethical ideas, not so much by changing them as by showing people their inner meaning. Confucius believed that if people knew why these things are important, they would follow them more fully and carefully, and life would become what it should be.
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