Shahid Beheshti University The Mirror of Knowledge 2251-8010 24 3 2024 09 22 Concept of happiness in Confucian Thought Concept of happiness in Confucian Thought 45 62 104862 10.48308/jipt.2024.235652.1525 FA Gorban Gelmi Department of Religions and Mysticism, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran. Ahmad Dastoori Department of Islamic Theology (Philosophy of Religion), University of Piyamanur, Tehran, Iran. 0009-0000-8770-119X Journal Article 2024 05 18 This article analyzes the concept of happiness in the thought of Confucius, one of the greatest sages of ancient China, especially in the book <em>Lun Yu</em>. First of all, in Lun Yu, Confucius considers true happiness moral happiness and believes that happiness is primarily not in physical pleasure but in moral pleasure. He defined the principles of happiness as moral education through continuous learning, achieving human virtues such as benevolence, justice, merit, and wisdom, maintaining harmony or peace between oneself and one's family, others, or the community, and individual and subduing one's ego and returning to merit, etiquette and traditional ceremony. Confucius believes happiness to be the perfect virtue in a simple social life. Being good and benevolent is necessary for happiness. By placing morality as a prerequisite for happiness, Confucius points out that happiness can be achieved through "knowledge, benevolence, and harmony among members of society." So others’ happiness is part and parcel of our happiness. This article analyzes the concept of happiness in the thought of Confucius, one of the greatest sages of ancient China, especially in the book <em>Lun Yu</em>. First of all, in Lun Yu, Confucius considers true happiness moral happiness and believes that happiness is primarily not in physical pleasure but in moral pleasure. He defined the principles of happiness as moral education through continuous learning, achieving human virtues such as benevolence, justice, merit, and wisdom, maintaining harmony or peace between oneself and one's family, others, or the community, and individual and subduing one's ego and returning to merit, etiquette and traditional ceremony. Confucius believes happiness to be the perfect virtue in a simple social life. Being good and benevolent is necessary for happiness. By placing morality as a prerequisite for happiness, Confucius points out that happiness can be achieved through "knowledge, benevolence, and harmony among members of society." So others’ happiness is part and parcel of our happiness. https://jipt.sbu.ac.ir/article_104862_297fa0dc5fa8e4415d18f3822e01d9fd.pdf