Harmony Under Heaven
The ultimate goal of world peace and harmony.
The final goal of Confucian cultivation and governance is peace under heaven (tianxia). When all cultivate virtue, families harmonize, states are well-governed, and the world is at peace. This is the Confucian utopia.
When the world is at peace, all under heaven is one family.
World peace is the ultimate Confucian goal.
Confucian Vision
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- What Confucianism says about order in human life
At the far end is peace under heaven, with the world spoken of as one household. The library records this as an ideal rather than as a description of anything that happened, and names no single passage for it.