关键词: 儒家, 宽恕, 仁, 中西比较

Abstract: Forgiveness is an important concept in social ethics. Comparing the thought of forgiveness between China and the West, it can be found that there are great differences between the two in terms of behavior presupposition, moral treatment mechanism, result and target orientation. The origin of these differences is due to the evolution of the historical language. In general, “forgiveness” of Confucianism is based on benevolence, which characteristic is not to focus on selflove or the function to repair social relations, but to actively achieve the unity of inner moral and external action.

Key words: Confucianism, forgiveness, benevolence, comparison between China and the West