In other words, to ensure the harmonious, stable and healthy development of the family, it is the key to abide by filial piety. The ethical requirement of "loving father and filial piety" plays an important role in family relations, and this requirement will involve friends and neighbors when it extends to society. A person who is very filial to his parents and respects his brother at home must have a harmonious relationship with his friends and neighbors. As the Analects of Confucius said: He is also filial to his younger brother, but few people are prone to make mistakes. Filial piety in The Analects of Confucius is the foundation of being a man. It not only requires children to respect their parents and elders, but also requires people to be loyal to the country, honest to friends and kind to others. "Filial piety" not only comes from people's moral emotion, but also runs through the whole process of people's moral emotion development and affects people's moral behavior. Therefore, advocating and promoting filial piety is not only conducive to enhancing the sense of responsibility of each individual, but also related to the happiness of each family and the construction of a harmonious socialist society in China.
Practical significance:
Conducive to the establishment of moral belief. There are many viewpoints of "taking the world as one's own duty" in China's Confucian classics, such as "It's a shame for a scholar to be determined to be the Tao" and "A scholar should be faithful, and the road is long and Xiu Yuan is Xi". Caring for others and taking the world as one's responsibility not only embodies the moral feelings of serving the public, but also is the lofty ideal and belief pursued by Confucian scholars in China. Xunzi said: "Sitting in a room, you can see the whole world far away." This shows that Confucianism already has the moral concept of "from oneself and others, from the inside out". The essence of this moral concept is to start from the subject, make the subject's responsibility to the object become a kind of consciousness, and make the self unconsciously assume responsibility to the other, which is also an act of strengthening responsibility.
This responsibility to the "other" specifically includes concern for the country's prosperity, social stability, people's living and working in peace and contentment, and concern for future social development. Fan Zhongyan expressed this responsibility more specifically in Yueyang Tower, that is, "those who live in the temple are worried about their people, and those who live far away from the rivers and lakes are worried about their kings." This view of responsibility enlightens us that we should not pay attention to our own interests while harming the interests of others, and we should not neglect our responsibilities to others while demanding our own interests. Under the temptation of money, many people in modern society have lost themselves and lost their moral beliefs and norms. "Scholar-bureaucrats worry all the time, but do nothing." Contemporary governments and their civil servants should also establish a sense of hardship, practice the ethics of responsibility, strive to change the social atmosphere corroded by fame and fortune, and cultivate a sense of work and noble moral beliefs of "serving the people wholeheartedly".
Conducive to the shaping of responsible character. To mold ideal personality and realize the value of life, people need to be tested by morality and ethics all the time. Whether in daily life or at a critical moment, they must firmly practice virtue, just like "Have spirit?" : "There is nothing to harm benevolence, and there is killing to become benevolence." In our daily life and work, we often say that dividing responsibilities, clarifying responsibilities and putting responsibilities on people are actually responsible according to the principle of equal rights and obligations. Taking responsibility is not only the requirement of the organization, but also the requirement of the post. Responsible character extends to today's society, including family virtues, professional ethics and social morality.
To accept the Confucian thought of "benevolence and filial piety", we must accept the responsibility corresponding to it. The shaping of responsible personality is also conducive to the standardization of social morality, promoting the cultivation of personal moral personality and professional ethics, and combating the breeding of unhealthy social phenomena. At present, our country is in the period of social transformation, and the original "unit person" and "family person" have become the current "social person", which will inevitably promote the transformation from the previously fixed single social role to today's multiple social roles. With the increase of roles, the sense of responsibility of the original roles is weakened, which leads to the weakening of the sense of responsibility of modern people. Therefore, how to enhance people's sense of responsibility has become very important in contemporary society.
Conducive to the construction of a clean government. Since ancient times, Confucianism has advocated performing their duties, pursuing self-cultivation by virtue and the realm of rigidity without desire. In the traditional "five filial piety", the emperor's filial piety is mainly love and respect, which makes the people rely on it; The filial piety of princes is mainly not arrogant to the world and restrained to protect the family; Doctor Qing's role is mainly to observe the etiquette system and set an example for the general public. At the same time, this is also the specific division of responsibilities of different types of subjects. Make the Confucian subject take the initiative to assume the corresponding social responsibility and social role out of the consciousness of their own identity and humanity. As the "scholar class" of China traditional intellectuals, they regard being an official as their duty and obligation, and regard the dissemination and inheritance of morality as their ultimate goal. The Confucian thought of benevolence and filial piety is also very necessary in today's society.
The construction of a clean and honest party style requires party member cadres to constantly strengthen their ideals and beliefs, establish a correct view of power and responsibility, constantly improve their sense of honesty and self-discipline, and constantly enhance the people's awareness of public servants, and strive to be modest and prudent, honest and clean.