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    1) Confucius believed that good government is achieved through virtue and ritual propriety rather than through laws and punishment. People will develop a sense of shame and follow leadership willingly when led by virtue. 2) For Confucius, superior rulership is characterized by the possession of "de" or virtue, which allows one to lead without force but through loyalty and effective subordinates maintaining good order. 3) Confucius' ethical theses relates to deontological moral theories, which define morality based on adherence to independent moral rules and duties rather than consequences. Acting immorally is seen as a failure to obey moral duties.

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    1) Confucius believed that good government is achieved through virtue and ritual propriety rather than through laws and punishment. People will develop a sense of shame and follow leadership willingly when led by virtue. 2) For Confucius, superior rulership is characterized by the possession of "de" or virtue, which allows one to lead without force but through loyalty and effective subordinates maintaining good order. 3) Confucius' ethical theses relates to deontological moral theories, which define morality based on adherence to independent moral rules and duties rather than consequences. Acting immorally is seen as a failure to obey moral duties.

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    1) Confucius believed that good government is achieved through virtue and ritual propriety rather than through laws and punishment. People will develop a sense of shame and follow leadership willingly when led by virtue. 2) For Confucius, superior rulership is characterized by the possession of "de" or virtue, which allows one to lead without force but through loyalty and effective subordinates maintaining good order. 3) Confucius' ethical theses relates to deontological moral theories, which define morality based on adherence to independent moral rules and duties rather than consequences. Acting immorally is seen as a failure to obey moral duties.

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    10 Ethical Theses of Confucius


    “If the people be led by laws, and uniformity among them be sought by
    punishments, they will try to escape punishment and have no sense of shame. If they are
    led by virtue, and uniformity sought among them through the practice of ritual propriety,
    they will possess a sense of shame and come to you of their own accord.” Good
    government consists in the ruler being a ruler, the minister being a minister, the father
    being a father, and the son being a son. If I claim for myself a title and attempt to
    participate in the various hierarchical relationships to which I would be entitled by virtue
    of that title, then I should live up to the meaning of the title that I claim for myself. If the
    ruler’s behavior is rectified then the people beneath him will follow suit. If your desire is
    for good, the people will be good. The moral character of the ruler is the wind; the moral
    character of those beneath him is the grass. When the wind blows, the grass bends.
    Leadership is universal. We have all experience it throughout our lives, from our
    earliest years as a children. Many of us will have exercised it, perhaps not always aware
    that we are doing so. It is this universality of leadership which in many ways helps to make
    it not only an important, but also a fascinating subject. For Confucius, what characterized
    superior ruler ship was the possession of de or ‘virtue.’ Conceived of as a kind of moral
    power that allows one to win a following without recourse to physical force, such ‘virtue’
    also enabled the ruler to maintain good order in his state without troubling himself and by
    relying on loyal and effective deputies. “He who governs by means of his virtue is, to use
    an analogy, like the pole-star: it remains in its place while all the lesser stars do homage
    to it.”
    This ethical theses of Confucius has a relation to various moral theories which is
    the Deontology. Because according to the book of Ethics, deontology is an ethical system
    that bases morality on independent moral rules or duties. This system equates behaving
    morally with adherence to duties or moral rules, an acting immorally with failure to obey
    them.

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