Comment on Confucian Family Love from a Christian Perspective

摘要

What is the right relationship of family love to universal love? How does one resolve anconflict between the love of one’s own parents and children with love for humankind? It isnedifying and stimulating to read of this debate in Confucian ethics. Those outside thenConfucian tradition of scholarship, unfamiliar with the original texts and the history of theirninterpretations, can not comment on the merit of various readings of the textual sources.nHowever, the ethical and moral dilemmas in question are also a central one in Christiannmoral theology, as well as in Western secular ethics. As a Christian writer trained innpsychology and influenced by modern Roman Catholic feminist and evolutionary