Journal of East China Normal University (Philosoph ›› 2015, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (6): 98-105.doi: 10.16982/j.cnki.1000-5579.2015.06.012

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Thinking Through Misfortune:Luck,Happiness and Morality in a Comparative View

SONG Jian   

  • Online:2015-11-15 Published:2015-12-13
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Abstract: "Gentleman in misfortune can still stick ambition", not only depict the moral situation in ("destiny" or "fortune"), more standardized moral character. Confucian and Kant ethics have deeply "moral" meaning, depending on the ethics of responsibility and purpose rather than seek a means of happiness; but the difference between the two is that: For the purposes of luck, Kant pursue the inevitability of morality, respectively, from the reality and ideal two levels kill luck; Then Confucianism will be condensed into the sense of doom, and thus constitute a force of moral practice. On happy terms, Kant alienation in the real level of happiness, only placed the "ethics and good fortune are consistent” in the postulate being of "immortality of the soul" and "the existence of God". But Confucian experience the same recognition as the world's happiness has its chance, but " ethics and good fortune are consistent "is not necessarily just an abstract mysterious talk. It can realize concretely in the realm life of" helping achieve oneself, others, and everything in the world".