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Title:: Why Don’t Virtuous People Feel Apprehensive?：A PreliminaryObservation of the Relationship between Confucian Ethics andMental and Physical Health

Keywords:: spirituality; Confucian ethics; mental and physical health; cognitive neuroscience

Abstract:: Spirituality is a universal psychological phenomenon that can be found in or outside religiousorganizations. Research shows that spirituality can promote mental and physical health and human lifespanas well. Confucianism believes that human psychosomatic health and ethics are mutually influenced. It isthought that people who are virtuous are not going to get psychological illness. We believe that man’s virtueis good for his body. Since ancient times，Confucianism has fully discussed the positive correlation betweenConfucian ethics and psychosomatic health. These rich spiritual thoughts in Confucian ethical culture are thevaluable wealth accumulated in the development of Chinese spirituality，which is of great benefit to solvethe problems caused by spiritual deficiency of modern people. Accordingly，we argue that Confucian ethicscan be beneficial to people’s psychosomatic health based on the research of modern spirituality and cognitiveneuroscience.