比较儒家的仁爱、基督教的圣爱和佛家的慈悲(国外英文资料).doc

比较儒家的仁爱、基督教的圣爱和佛家的慈悲(国外英文资料) Compare Confucian benevolence, Christian holy love, and buddhist compassion The introduction Before we start, it is necessary to clarify the concept of Confucianism. Confucianism is admittedly a philosophy system, its coverage, such as life, ethics, politics, and Confucius thought day is just a set of natural laws, and not have the personality of will or god, this greatly reduced the Confucian religious nature. In addition, the subject of Confucian scholars can be regarded as a purely philosophical discussion, so some people think that Confucianism is not a religion. On the other hand, however, it is true that, in the case of the definition of religion by Paul Tillich or Emile Durkheim, the Confucian has a religious character in great love. So for the convenience of discussion, Ill accept Confucianism is a religion, and lend phenomenological approach to the topic of debate in parentheses, regardless. And whether Confucian religion is not an important topic in this paper, it is still to be discussed by scholars. In addition, the approach used in this article is multi-faceted, rational, social, and philosophical. Hope to use different point of view of Confucian benevolence, the Christian holy love and buddhist compassion the contents and characteristics of borrow the connotations and compare notes, out of the practical social problems. The historical background of the three teaching theories Confucianism was the dominant religion in the world, and the Confucian roots were in the pre-qin period of the Chinese mainland, and later in the han dynasty. Buddhism began in India and spread throughout Asia. Christianity began in Palestine and was greater than continental Europe. Three religions produced in different cultural environment, the doctrine of form and content must have close relationship with restore survival problems, so if you know something of the historical background of the religious origins and have help us to understand his teach