Book I: Studying 学而第一 Chapter9
曾子曰："慎终追远，民德归厚矣。"
Master Zeng said: Devote care to life's end and pursue respect for the distant dead; in this way, the virtue of the people will return to fullness.
So in this chapter, Master Zeng, who I believe is also one of Confucius' students, was giving his understanding about how to develop ethics among the society. He believed that, we needed to have respect for human being's death, and always gave our memorize to our ancestors, in this way, the society of ethics environment would go to the virtue path.
I think in this chapter, the way of showing respect to death, actually is showing the love of human beings. Since we will devote love and respect to death, we surely will love people who are alive, and love people around us. When the society is based on love, this society will be surrounded by an ethics environment.
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