The Religious Commitment of Confucian Style

Abstract

Religious commitment is an emotive acknowledgement and life pursuit for the authoritative resource of value or the ultimate concern for human faith. In the western tradition this commitment is frequently depicted as experiencing the notions of all-existing truth, goodness, and beauty whereas in the Chinese Confucian tradition it is constantly estimated as integration of the mysterious cosmos and mundane human beings. The very integration of Confucianism embodies the spiritual field in which all existent beings in the universe are coordinating in the rules of benevolence, innateness, and rationality. The Chinese Confucians are devoted to these rules as if they were the Onto of all universal beings and committed their lives to the sacrifice of this onto. They persuade themselves into conviction that by doing this they are just performing the holy duties designated for their cosmos. Obviously, we do not see organizational religion and human–god worship in Confucian tradition, yet Confucians do express their religious commitments by affiliating themselves whole-heartedly to grand mundane ethical ideas seen as the mysterious onto of the universe.