Personal Statement : Hsun Tzu

Children pick up on moral lessons at a budding age. For example, children learn to share toys with each other. If the child never compramised and shared , the children would manifest how to say sorry.Let’s say the child didn’t say sorry, the individual would learn what guilt feels as their fellow classmate cries. The child might not understand what feeling themselves were personally having, but feeling responsible would be one. When the child moves to the adolescent stage, the scenarios developed. It’s no longer G rated guilt, it’s now feeling responsible for something you should have done or didn’t do. Life gets harder and the adolescent along with adults will slowly start to grasp the concept of guilt and responsibility. The child and

Tzu believes that people are all born evil and that that need to be taught how to be ethical. Like fellow Confucius philosopher Mencius, Tzu believed that no one entered the world with moral principles. Tzu said that people lacked any moral direction at birth, and would become corrupt and dangerous if not taught otherwise. At the core men where selfish creatures, with envy, and hatred if left in its natural state. The only way to stop this from happening was to educate people, putting them on a path to righteousness. Humans must choose to be good, it is not an inborn instinct so we must continue to learn to be good with practice. “(Tzu) claims that all human beings experience certain desires—primarily desires for bodily satisfaction and comfort and for social honor and position—and that we cannot reduce or eliminate these desires” (Robins). The difference between a bad person and a good person is how they are educated; they are brought into this world with no idea of morality. People cannot be forced to learn, but with help from learning everyone can become a good, moral

Children evaluated moral transgressions (e.g. a child throwing water to another child) as more serious offenses as well as more likely to deserve punishment than conventional transgression (e.g. a child not sitting in the designated place during story time) (Smetana, 1981). As people mature, instead of simply making moral judgments based on the consequences of the action (e.g. the boy who accidently broke 15 cups is naughtier than a boy who broke one cup while stealing), people were able to make moral judgments not only by direct consequence but also by motivation and intention behind behavior (e.g. the boy who broke one cup while stealing is naughtier than the boy who accidently broke 15 cups) (Piaget,

I believe that when people are developing morals you have to have enough emotional development to feel guilty when you do something wrong, enough social development to accept our responsibility for behaving good or bad towards our group, and enough cognitive development to be able to place ourselves in someone else’s shoes. My parent taught me early in life the differences between right and wrong and to treat people the way I would want to be treated. I understood these lessons at a young age because that was the way my parent taught my brother and sister.

Hsun Tzu's philosophy is built from the idea that human beings are by nature inherently evil, and the good they produce will only come through their conscious activity. Hsun Tzu believes that if man follows his nature and indulges in his natural desires, without transforming himself by conscious activity he is doomed to fall victim to his evil nature. "Any man who follows his nature will inevitably become involved in wrangling and strife, will violate the forms and rules of society, and will end as a criminal." Despite the pessimistic tone of Hsun Tzu's message he does propose conscious activity as a solution to man's evil. This paper will examine Hsun Tzu's perspective in light of both Mencius

An educated person is someone who uses the necessary knowledge to facilitate and thus succeed in all aspects of life. Even John Henry Newman delineates the purpose of a higher education, which not only makes a smoother transition to a variety of realistic careers but also helps humans grow and develop over time. As a strong advocate of Confucius’ disciples of education, Hsün Tzu intends to favor a learning process that starts at birth and ends at death. In addition, he compares it to the processes of straightening a piece of wood and sharpening a piece of metal. He finds this comparison to be emphasizing the significance of the education that, in his opinion, the Chinese should turn themselves to. Tzu is correct that education should promote

An alcoholic parent can affect what a child thinks is morally acceptable because, they are more tolerant of misbehavior, and often are not very moral people themselves. Alcoholic parents may not often be present or in a stable state of mind, allowing their children to partake in the activities they choose, which are often bad for them. The parents are not conscientious enough to put down the actions, making the child think they are acceptable. Children of alcoholics are more likely to steal and be violent, use drugs and or alcohol, and be engaged in activities that are potentially dangerous ("Children Of Alcoholics | American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry"). They are being raised in an environment where they see this happening, and then imitate it, because that is how they think a person is allowed to act. Some children are just copying what they see their parents do. Alcohol may be the parents’ way to deal with the pressures of daily life, and children observe the use of alcohol as a coping mechanism, making

This paper reflects on the question of if a child of 10 years or less can act morally wrong or commit morally virtuous acts. Children in today's society are nearly forced to be older than their actual age and thus must increase in maturity and morally comparatively to children of as little as three decades ago. The argument of agreement will be proved by examples of needing a two person income family with a comparative of a child in a single parent versus both parent environment. Although it is a "grievous moral wrong to harm" (Waller, 2008, p. 32) children under the age of ten, the evil in society today will be proved with examples to show children who are harmed are able to commit not only morally virtuous acts but can and

As talked about in Berk there are many factors that impact our understanding of morals. Kohlberg believed that various experiences influenced and cause “cognitive challenges” and in turn allow them to moral questions and situations in more complicated ways. Some of these influences could be school, friends, and culture (Berk, 2014)

A quite popular idea is that a person's childhood has the greatest influence on their personality and their moral standards. As stated by Patrick Crispen in Criminal Minds, a child's morals are learned and set by the age of ten years old (67). Also stated in Criminal Minds, is the assumption that a sixth-grade teacher could look at a class of students and determine who will be successful, who will be a "trouble-maker", and so forth (70). This is a deeper example of how

Everyone should take these step of moral development into consideration when making any decision in life. All parents should install these stages into their children. Parents can do this by, first teaching them all the stages and levels. They must know all the stages in order to understand them. Next, the parent should break down the importance of each stage, and what each decision would mean. They can do this by giving the example of experience they have been in or heard of. Lastly, the parent should give the child a chance to live and learn with the use of what they were taught. This could help the parent see if the child truly understood the importance of these types of thinking, and help the child learn from their own experience. If every parent did this the world would be a more conscious

A child does not have its own morals, they are passed down by the parents and often the consequences will drive the moral decision a child make. In other words, a child knows that lying is wrong because he was taught by his parents and if caught lying will result in a punishment a negative outcome tied to being bad in a child’s mind. As a child becomes a young adult the sense of belonging and relationship will drive his moral choices. Lastly as adults, we are often conflicted between our inherited morals and the moral judgements we make based on acceptance, our emotions and often times judicial systems and rules and associated consequences. You steal, you get caught you go to jail. In some cases not all, this will persuade the adult to refrain from stealing and act morally.

Morality refers to the concept of proper human action in terms of "right and wrong," also referred to as "good and evil. According to Hobbes (1994:11), morality is simply a declaration of rules and beliefs that are considered absolute guides for human behaviour. According to Hare (1981:27), “Morality is a system of principles and judgments based on cultural, religious, and philosophical concepts and beliefs, by which humans determine whether given actions, are right or wrong.” Moral values and graciousness, in the past, were prominent in most teenagers. Every individual has capacity for growth. But a seed cannot grow without nurturing. And farmers don’t get to neglect their crops. So moral values has to be inculcated from infancy. Many years

The term “moral” is defined by Oxford English Dictionary as the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character. As a Vietnamese, I would like to mention one small aspect of the great moral issues of youth’s Vietnamese is moral values in Vietnam students’ lifestyle nowadays. When we mention in the word "student ' ', everyone knows that is highly intellectual class of a nation - the future of the country; students who determine the prosperity of the country. I awake that moral values in youth are really important. A good moral can reduce black marketing, manipulation, fraud, cheating, even create inspiration for others. To prepare for baggage in life, we are not only just bring the knowledge that we learned but also have good moral character that worthy of

Children develop their ability to think and act morally through several stages. If they fail to reach the conventional stage, in which adolescents realize that their parents and society have rules that should be followed because they are morally right to follow, they might well engage in harmful behavior. Whereas boys tend to use formal rules to decide what is right or wrong, girls tend to take personal relationships into account.