AN ANALYSIS OF ETHICS INFLUENCING AUTIBIOGRAPHY OF LAI DONG JIN, THE BEGGAR CHILD
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The Lai Dong Jin autobiography, “The Beggar Child” by Lai Dong Jin, exemplified how the son of beggar named “Lai Dong Jin” had overcome obstacles in life and gained his prestige as the outstanding person of the year in 1999. Based on the book renowned as best-seller in Taiwan, this research article is aimed at studying and analyzing ethics influencing the writing of Lai Dong Jin autobiography, “The Beggar Child” and presenting concepts and a living role-model in overcoming obstacles for life to achieve success as written in The Beggar Child by Lai Dong Jin. In this study, textual interpretation was used to analyze contents, and descriptive analysis was used for data presentation. The results showed that Lai Dong Jin possessed ethical characteristics based on ethical principles proposed by Confucius including gratitude and the way of action given to other people as you want in return. In addition, he also possessed ethical characteristics based on Mahayana Buddhism including wisdom and mercy in helping other people, complete characteristics of spiritual concepts by living a happy and peaceful life, and setting a life goal to make benefits for general public and nation, good relationship with family members, mind restraints, characteristics of wisdom and overcoming obstacles, and inner strength. Overall, Lai Ding Jin could be a life role-model to general public, especially in terms of living lifestyles, and his autobiography was worth studying and respecting.
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