Conficianism: Teachings on Love

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Confucius on the Nature of Vulnerable Love

Confucianism places a brawny emphasis on love. In fact, its most germane postulation, ren, can be translated as "love." The Confucians swallowed that everyone, including animals, should be perturbed about their well-being. Despite the verity that everyone deserves endearment, Confucians discerned that the potency of one's concern for others would natch vary depending on the estate of intimacy. As a corollary, the pivotal to soliciting others was to extend one's compassion for menage members to others. Astonishingly, despite the prominence of having an empathic concern for others, the conformist frowned upon romantic love, which frequently contradicted the emphasis of ethics.


As a result, Ren, Confucianism's most crucial tenet—customarily construed as kindness, goodness, or humanity—represents an embodiment of love. Ren, according to the immemorial Confucian writers, consists of loving others. Confucius unambiguously avered "loving others" when an acolyte asked for a definition of ren. What verbatim did this love entail? One should be emotionally imbued in someone and work to clinch his or her/its well-being. It was esteemed, so climacteric to love people that it was considered the cornerstone to successful administration.

CONFUCIANISM VERY RARELY GLORIFIES THE COUPLE IN THEIR ENTIRETY.

Romantic love was frowned upon in Confucianism. The raison d'etre of marriage was to preserve the family's survival by producing heirs; it had nowt to do with the gaiety of the two people who were getting hitched. As a result, progenitors choose who their son or daughter would wed. If a son's parents despised his wife after he married her, he would have to divorce her regardless of his solicitude. Children's hankering must be subjected to their parents' desires inside the family. Man and wife relationships should also be accredited and hegemonized by hierarchy.


Next, Confucian ideology is intended to govern human relationships to foster societal peace rather than spiritual advancement. Confucian ethical pronouncements are highly influenced by societal norms and the obligation to adhere to them. This might be incompatible with love sentiments. We don't have the same glorified narrative structure of "the two of us versus the world" that we see in Western love narratives, but we do have couples that feel cut off from the rest of the world in some manner; it's just that such a scenario is rarely exalted.


As a result, Confucians frequently denounced popular books and plays in late imperial times because they often depicted juveniles disregarding ethical and ceremonial concerns to follow their love interests. Because of its strong emphasis on social order, Confucianism has a hard time justifying rebellious conduct.


ROMANTIC COUPLE CONFUCIAN IDEAS IN ACTION

Confucianism delineates a jovial and stable partnership as:

  • One willing to sacrifice for one another.

  • being honest in communicating and keeping your word (honesty),

  • to demonstrate compassion, commiseration, empathy, understanding, or any other sort of warm feeling

  • A diligent husband will earn a living outside the home to provide for his family, while a dynamic wife will take care of housekeeping and child-rearing chores and, to some extent, administer the home.

Relationships are not based on passion (an extreme emotional attachment or sexual attraction). They must be contained in some way by the above patterns.


When one or more of these normative relationship expectations are not satisfied, disappointment, blame, rage, or retribution are the most common reactions.


Profound Quotes On Love

  1. "Love is the beginning and end of our existence. There is no life without love. Because love is what a wise person puts on a pedestal".

  2. "Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

  3. "To love a thing means wanting it to live."

  4. "Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old".

  5. "When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points”.

  6. "Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?"

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