敬老,从人伦道德上升为文化现象的同时,给这种道德品性赋予了一种文化内涵。如果敬老只是停留在家庭伦理的层面,那只具血亲传承的人类学意义,只有在广阔的社会层面,以这种伦理规范作为社会崇尚的目标时,敬老才具有文化的品格,才可称之为时代的文明。我们在对敬老这种道德品性作文化研究的时候,首先就要让敬老这种由家庭伦理上升为社会文化的现象进入文化哲学的视域,通过文化哲学的历史分析,厘清各种纠缠在一起的概念,理解敬老文化的本质是对人的生命关怀。 Respect for the elderly, from the human ethics to cultural phenomena at the same time, to give this moral character a cultural connotation. If respect for the elderly only stays at the level of family ethics, only the anthropological meaning inherited by kinship means that elders only have the character of culture when such ethical norms are the target of social advocacy only at a broad social level. For the era of civilization. When we conduct cultural studies on the moral character of the elders, we must first make the phenomenon of respecting the elders raised from family ethics to social culture enter the field of cultural philosophy. Through the historical analysis of cultural philosophy, we can clarify various entanglements in With the concept of understanding the essence of respect for the elderly culture is the concern for human life.