Abstract
Abstract This paper shows that Confucian morality satisfies the conditions of a holistic moral education, involving moral understanding, commitment and will, motivation and sentiments. Its basic principles of interpersonal relations are universally acknowledged ones, such as justice, truthfulness, equality and liberty. It stresses commitment to and practice of these principles by advocating virtues of character such as wisdom, courage, trust and love. The latter two involve sincerity and right motivation, requiring doing the morally right for the right reasons. They also require doing the morally right with the appropriate human sentiment. 1 1. I owe many of the source references of this paper to the secondary school textbooks in Confucian Ethics prepared by the Curriculum Development Institute of Singapore. I have also benefited from being in the team that wrote the textbooks
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