A Historical Investigation of Virtues——A Study on Original Chinese Culture

The most essential proposition in depths of original Chinese culture is idea that the emperor's reign contains no relation but virtue. The proposition occurs in form of two worlds,which sketches essential character and distinctions of relation between man and heaven in Chinese philosophy.Its primary meaning is neither morality or virtue but existence itself and sustentation of life through it,extended to benefaction and reward for virtue.The proposition was initially political and then was stretched into a philosophic category,belonging to same category as nature.Virtue with its cultural,political and historical connotation exerted enormous influence on Confucianist view of humanity and also determined sense of Tao of Laozi which was characteristic individually of Chinese philosophy and different from logos or general principle of Western philosophy.