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A Study on the Concept of 'Loyalty and Filial Piety' in the Taoist Scriptures (도교 경전에 나타난 충효관 연구 - 『문창효경(文昌孝經)』과 『정명충효전서(淨明忠孝全書)』를 중심으로 -)

  • Jo Min-hwan
    • Journal of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences
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    • v.45
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    • pp.37-67
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    • 2023
  • This paper aims to examine the loyalty and filial piety pursued by Taoists, focusing on the concept of loyalty and loyalty shown in Wenchang Filial Piety Classic and General Collection of Jingming on Loyalty and Filial Piety. After the Han Dynasty, the concept of loyalty and filial piety became the representative virtues that led the country and society to follow the ideology of Confucius as the dominant ideology. This applied to everyone from emperor to each individual. Taoism had different reasons for promoting the concept of loyalty and filial piety and these even varied from sect to sect, but generally, Taoism could also be said to emphasize loyalty and filial piety. Depending on the sect of Taoism, filial piety might be valued on its own or filial piety might be valued in conjunction with loyalty. In particular, defining Taoism was criticized for "forgetting the desirable behavior required in the human network of the world and severing relationships with various objects encountered in life." In this respect, the concept of loyalty and filial piety in General Collection of Jingming on Loyalty and Filial Piety, could be observed to emphasize 'filial piety' in conjunction with 'loyalty', and this shows the influence of Confucius' concept of loyalty and filial piety. At the same time, this shows the concept of loyalty and filial piety as reimagined by Taoism. The most fundamental aim of Taoism is to pursue immortality. However, as a prerequisite for becoming such a god, loyalty and filial piety, were practiced alongside 'gentleness' and 'humanity and trustworthiness.' Here, the Taoist emphasis on 'loyalty and filial piety', 'gentleness', and 'humanity and trustworthiness' is essentially the same as in Neo-Confucianism. However, seeking to become an immortal through these values represents a motivation that is different from Neo-Confucians who denied the pursuit of immortality. In this paper, loyalty and filial piety as understood and practiced by Neo-Confucian scholars will be compared with the same concepts in the Taoist context and the findings will be summarized via three categories. First, in the Taoist model longevity and the pursuit of immortality are seen as being closely related to filial piety. The reason why achieving longevity and pursuing immortality was considered closely related to filial piety is because this is a modified and enhanced reimagining of the Neo-Confucianist concept of loyalty and filial piety. The other is that Taoism's concept of loyalty and filial piety is richly supplemented with content about 'interactions between heaven and humankind.' When filial piety is practiced in this context, the principle of responding to the gods of heaven and earth is emphasized. At the same time, Taoism presents consequences for insufficient filial piety to parents or insufficient loyal to the king; disasters will be brought down by heaven. Finally, it is argued that the practice filial piety is necessary and should extend not only to parents to all phenomena in the world without distinguishing based on one's degree of intimacy to those phenomena.

A Study on the Modern Understanding of Filial Piety: Based on the Its Education (효의 현대적 이해에 관한 연구: 효 교육을 중심으로)

  • 임희규
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.229-240
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the essence and the meaning of conventional filial piety and its education to be a help to build up a moral society. Consequently the main point of this study is grafting our filial piety to industrial society and reviewing our conventional filial piety at the present time and what is the role of education. The traditional thought of our people is based on the filial piety and it is based on the basic love in humanity that is is rooted in the principle of benevolence. We should realize the most important practical principles of reverent affection. Our traditional filial piety has been handed down along with long history. though it has been a little chaned to meet the needs of the times. We should not forget that the fundamental thought of filial piety has never changed. The education for filial piety in modern society should be taken charge of by family society and school and be helped each other So the filial piety thought as tradition l ethics has to be adjusted to the modern sense. We should make a considerable point of the filial piety education for value which will bring about the recovery of humanity.

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Familism and Filial Piety (가족주의와 효)

  • Lee, Sung-Yong
    • Korea journal of population studies
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.215-240
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    • 2006
  • The purposes of this study is to explore the effect of parents' related variables, children related variables and the familism related variable on the two types of filial piety behaviors, which are the traditional familism type of filial piety and the individualistic type of filial piety. The former is measured by the coresidence with parents, financial support to parents, while the latter is measured by visiting to parents' house and phone calling on parents. The data used in this study are "the national survey for filial piety consciousness" administered by Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation, the 598 married children are analysed. The key findings are followings. The first one is that the attributes related our traditional familism are still the important factors affecting on both the familism type of filial piety and individualistic types of filial piety. The second is that the children who fulfill the traditional familism type of filial piety also do well the individualistic type of filial piety.

The Relationship between Urban Married's Nonnative Sense of the Traditional Filial Piety and their Affiliation with Relatives (도시 기혼남녀의 전통적 효 규범의식과 친척유대간의 관계에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn Hei Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.43 no.5 s.207
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    • pp.183-198
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to discuss the relationship between Korean people's normative sense of the traditional filial piety and their affiliation with relatives. For this purpose, the researcher reviewed ethics books during the Chosun dynasty such as Naehoon Women's Ethics), Dongmongsonsup (Children's Cardinal Moral Principles) ,Kyokmongyokyol (Juvenile's Learning) and Gyuenyoso (Instructions for Daughters of Marriageable Age), Based on this review a questionnaire was designed. For the survey,566 returned questionnaires from married people between their 20's and 70's living in Seoul and Wonju Si were sampled The collected data were analyzed using the SAS program for means and SDs of each area in order to examine the overall tendency, and were subject to one-way ANOVA to determine the relationship between their normative sense of the traditional filial piety and their affiliations with relatives depending on their demographic variables, In addition to this correlation analysis, the data underwent regression analysis to determine the significant factors affecting the subjects' sense of filial piety and their affiliation with relatives. The results of this study can be summarized as follows ; First, the subjects were found to have a normal or higher sense of filial piety in overall terms, which suggests that the Korean morality of filial piety may be positive. In particular, the subjects' sense of filial piety was higher for living parents than for dead ones. Namely, they wanted to give more respect, honor and support to their parents than give a cordial funeral or memorial service to deceased parents. Second, older Koreans were more aware of filial piety, and men were more conscious of filial piety than women. Buddhists or atheists tended to be more faithful to their parents. Generally, those with lower academic background and living with larger families had a higher normative sense of filial piety. On the other hand, those in their 60's and 70's were most affiliated with their relatives, while youth and middle-aged people were less affiliated with their relatives. Men were more affiliated with their relatives than women, and first sons or daughters were more affiliated with their relatives. Besides, those living with larger families were more affiliated with their relatives. Third, the subjects' normative sense of filial piety, particularly for deceased parents, was highly correlated with their affiliation with relatives, and such a normative sense of filial piety was most conspicuous in their funeral rites.

The Concept of Continuity in Confucianism through filial piety(孝) Ethics (효(孝) 윤리를 통해 본 유가(儒家)의 연속적 사유)

  • Lee, Cheon-Sung
    • The Journal of Korean Philosophical History
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    • no.29
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    • pp.179-202
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    • 2010
  • In addition to the emphasis on filial piety ethics in everyday life, filial piety obtained a further significance in Confucianism which had the strong sense of ancestor worship. This paper focuses on filial piety as a mechanism of continuity within Confucianism and points out that it owed its development to its connection to agricultural culture. The sedentary life with less mobility forged a relative intimacy among people and filial piety was the actual expression of that kind of intimate affection. Yet, filial piety in Confucianism created a unique culture in terms that it not only stipulated material and emotional support for parents but also expected one's piety to the further ancestors through a memorial service and made its connection to the infinite posterity through sons. From the perspective of Confucianism that established filial piety at the turning point from life to death, the self existing in present was not an isolated self anymore. Yet, one can see another characteristic of Confucianism from that filial piety, based on blood bonds, could move beyond paternalism to broaden itself. It could be expanded to the care for strangers. The aged experience and wisdom through agricultural life begot the insight that the nature made its infinite connections with everything through circulation. As a stone thrown in a pond would enlarge its boundary by drawing larger and larger concentric circles, this thought enabled people to enlarge their affection to their parents to universal humanity. In this enlarged network, though it was natural to make distinctions between the closer and the farther, Confucianism sought to overcome it by establishing oneself upright. Confucianism emphasized the moral cultivation with its filial piety concept that contained the diachronic thought penetrating life and death and the broadened perspective relating everything around. In Confucianism, filial piety provided an important medium in forming a moral subject that penetrated life and death and related self and others. Inherent in it is the Confucius thought of continuity that searched for a paragon of a moral human being regardless of time and space.

A Study on the Religiosity of Filial Piety Ethics in Daesoonjinrihoe (대순진리회의 효 윤리에 나타난 종교성 연구)

  • Cha, Seon-keun
    • Journal of the Daesoon Academy of Sciences
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    • v.27
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    • pp.171-200
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    • 2016
  • This paper will analyze the filial piety based ethics of Daesoonjinrihoe (大巡眞理會) and the traditional filial piety of Confucianism (儒敎), Buddhism (佛敎) and Taoism (道敎) through comparing and contrasting their unique systems. The traditional Korean ethics regarding filial piety are in great need of reformation as the relationship between the parents and children should not be vertical or unilateral but parallel and reciprocal. However, there have not been sufficient in-depth studies on this specific ideology and alternative approaches. Regarding this prospect, one representative Korean indigenous new religion, Daesoonjinrihoe has emerged and directly engages in the collision between traditionalism and modernity. The modernity of Daesoonjinrihoe, enables the observation of how the filial piety based ethics have developed within a system of doctrine and thereby provides an exemplary model of traditional filial piety reimagined in accordance with modern sensibilities. A brief summary of comparative findings is as follows: First, Daesoonjinrihoe and Confucianism have taken serving parents with respect as an ethic within filial piety, but Confucianism engenders this ideal through the unilateral and unconditional sacrifice of younger people based on patriarchal feudalism whereas Daesoonjinrihoe has rejected such unilateral sacrifice and instead promotes mutual beneficience between parents and children. This difference occurs, in part, due to the filial piety of Confucianism rising in the midst of the feudal order whereas the ideology of Daesoonjinrihoe contains ideals such as "the reciprocation of favor for mutual beneficence (報恩相生)" and "respect for humanity (人尊)," both of which serve as key principles of the new religious world as envisioned by Daesoonjinrihoe. Second, filial piety in Buddhism and Taoism tends to be passive and inactive and is often expressed by praying for happiness and longevity for one's parents while they are alive and later praying for the heavenly rebirth of one's parents after they die. The filial piety of Daesoonjinrihoe also partially contains such ideas, however; they are extended much further and arrive upon novel and profound expressions. The spectrum of the filial piety in Daesoonjinrihoe expands to the extent children perform actions to resolve their parent's sins and pave a new road for their parents. This filial piety requires a cultivation practice from both parents and children. This system of dual cultivation was established because the world-view of Daesoonjinrihoe enables both parents and children to enjoy happiness and wealth both of which are achieved through the completion of religious objectives following cultivation practice. Third, Confucianism and Daesoonjinrihoe hold memorial services for ancestors with sincerity as an expression of filial piety. Filial piety in the Confucian context excludes ideas from Shamanism and thereby memorial services are held for impersonal entities, however; in the Daesoonjinrihoe context, memorial services are held for personal-entities. Accordingly, holding a memorial service for ancestors with sincerity has a greater sense of realism in Daesoonjinrihoe than it does in Confucianism. Fourth, while Confucianism and Daesoonjinrihoe both aim to requite the grace received from ancestors, the contents of grace and reciprocation of favors (報恩) are viewed differently. In Confucianism, since the ancestors existed previously and bestowed the gift of life to their children and indirectly, all of their descendents. Therefore, memorial services for ancestors are held to convey gratitude and filial piety. However, in Daesoonjinrihoe, ancestors not only bestowed the gift of earthly life to their descendents, in the spirit realm, ancestral spirits also spend sixty years accumulating the merit necessary to imbue each of their descendents with spiritual insight. Consequently, filial piety is expressed through memorial services as well as spiritual cultivation. Fifth, in Confucianism, achieving the fame and prestige indicative of success in the mundane world can be an act of filial piety as it would bring pride to one's ancestors, but in Daesoonjinrihoe, succeeding in religious objectives through spiritual cultivation is considered to be a higher form of filial piety. Sixth, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism all observe filial piety as system of familial ethics based in morality. This is likewise true of Daesoonjinrihoe, however; Daesoonjinrihoe confers greater importance on filial piety as an essential form of ethics for religious redemption. This is due to the Daesoon interpretation that the absence of filial piety was the direct cause which led to the sickened state of the world and its collapse. Forgetting the grace of parents who have given the gift of life or the grace of ancestral spirits who have accumulated merit on behalf of their descendents are acts of ingratitude which are unacceptable during the period of Reordering of the Universe. Judging from these findings, Daesoonjinrihoe embraces parts of traditional filial piety as it exists in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, but it does so on the ground of its own unique culture. Through re-interpretation and re-creation, ideas regarding filial piety are being further developed. Namely, filial piety in Daesoonjinrihoe is regulations founded upon the reciprocation of favors for mutual beneficence and respect for humanity. Therefore, it is understood as a concept wherein one's own cultivation practice is performed in order to reach religious objectives, the perfection of personal character, and spiritual insight. This requires that even recipents of filial piety (i.e., parents) perform certain cultivation practices to enjoy happiness and wealth. Additionally, filial piety in Daesoonjinrihoe manifests a reinforced religious character and also serves as a system ethics which is soteriologically essential for salvation during the period known as the Reordering of the Universe.

Filial piety and familism of the undergraduates and consciousness for supporting their parents (대학생의 효 의식과 가족주의 가치관 및 부모 부양의식)

  • 최정혜
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.35 no.6
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    • pp.55-69
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    • 1997
  • This research was focused on the filial piety, familism of the undergraduates and consciousness for supporting their parents. The subjects of this study were 675 undergraduates living in the Gyeongnak area. The major findings are as follows: First, the undergraduate's filial piety and consciousness for supporting their parents was high but familism was low. Second, the more the undergraduate's filial piety and familism were high, the more the undergraduate's consciousness for supporting their parents was high. also filial piety was shown to be the most important factor for the undergraduate to support their parents. third, the attitude of undergraduate's towards supporting their parents has been changed and Undergraduates felt t6ha there is a lack of communication with heir parents.

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Consciousness of Filial Piety and Family Values in College Students (대학생의 효에 대한 인식과 가족가치관에 영향을 미치는 변인)

  • Bae, Moon-Jo;Park, Se-Jeong
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.275-285
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences of gender on consciousness of filial piety in undergraduates. The researched were 155 male and 176 female students in Daegu. The major findings of this study were as follows. : First, there were significant differences in the consciousness of filial piety according to student's gender. there were significant differences in the reason of filial piety according to student's gender. there were significant differences in the family values according to student's gender. Finally, the variables influencing college students' family values were gender, awareness of emotion supporting, financial supporting, physical supporting, and attachment with their parents.

The Study on Hyo Consciousness and Filial Piety of Middle School Students (중학생의 효 의식과 효행에 관한 연구)

  • Lee Sook-Hee;Shin Hyo-Shik;Lee Seon-Jeong
    • Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.159-170
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    • 2005
  • This Study has an aim to offer the basic materials to teach the establishment and practice of Hyo consciousness to teenagers after finding the degree of accomplishment about their filial piety as the changes of related variables for the subject of this study, the Middle school boys and girls. The results of this research were followings. 1. The objects of research's Hyo consciousness and filial piety was totally high. 2. The teenagers' Hyo consciousness was showed significant difference according to adolescent's sea school's place, parents' job, the level of parents' education, income level, religion, family composition, and the place people who were educated Hyo live. 3. The teenagers' filial piety was showed significant difference according to adolescent's sea mother's job, the level of father's education, religion, and the place people who were educated Hyo live. 4. The teenagers' filial piety was showed significant difference according to Hyo consciousness. 5. In the relative influence of changes of having influence on filial piety, the better relative changes for filial piety were expressed as sex, religion, the place people who were educated Hyo a lot live, and Hyo consciousness. That is, the more they had Hyo consciousness the more they practiced filial piety. and girl students was expressed higher than boy students in practicing.

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A Cross-National Investigation into the Filial Piety and Motivations for Parenthood among Vietnamese and Korean College Students (베트남과 한국 대학생의 효의식과 부모됨의 동기에 관한 비교국가연구)

  • Duong, Thi Nhat Anh;Yoo, Gyesook
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.54 no.6
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    • pp.575-588
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    • 2016
  • This study empirically examined the effects of filial piety on motivations for parenthood among Vietnamese and Korean college students, who represent a generation of young adults and prospective parents in both countries. The Vietnamese data were collected from 325 college students enrolled in three universities located in Hanoi and Korean data were collected from 216 students from a single large university in Seoul. Student respondents were asked to complete the self-administered questionnaire including 'Filial Piety Scale' and 'Motivations for Parenthood Scale.' The results revealed that the Vietnamese students reported a significantly higher level of 'general filial piety' than their Korean counterparts. Vietnamese and Korean participants showed no significant difference in total motivations for parenthood. Among the five sub-factors of motivations for parenthood, however, the Vietnamese students were more likely to place a value on the expansion of self-motivation while their Korean counterparts considered the motivation to strengthen biological family ties to be more salient. Finally, after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics, hierarchical regression analysis revealed that the more filial Vietnamese and Korean college students were towards their parents, the more child-related motives they held in general. The results are discussed in relation to each country's degree of modernization and to recommend prospective family planning and population policies in Vietnam based on the experiences of Korea industrialization.