Parents need to be treated with reverence. For the Master, this is silly-one provides one’s animals with food, as well without deep respect for one’s parents, then, providing them with food is essentially offering them the same treatment that one offers one’s animals. This is what it means to be filial, at least in antiquity nowadays, the Master explains, many people interpret being “filial” as simply providing one’s parents with food and drink so that they don’t have to worry about supporting themselves in their old age. For him, one can judge whether a son is loyal or not to his parents if, three years after his father’s death, the son has not strayed from copying his father’s ways.
Indeed, the Master believes that respect for one’s parents is of the utmost importance. Yu, one of his disciples, comments that the root of a man’s character is his behavior during childhood if, during childhood, a boy is obedient, he will grow into a man who has respect for his superiors and does not instigate rebellion. Confucius, also known as the Master, says that he enjoys studying philosophy and slowly integrating the lessons he has learned into his daily life.
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