Can Ethics and Confucian Lunli Be Considered the Same Concept?

Ethics,which is concerned with the summum bonum,or morality,has longbeenaprobleminspeculative thought,ever since the dawn of Western philosophy.Yet,this problem of defining ethics has hardly concerned the Chinese in the same way,and the few scholars in Chinese history who sought to do so,apart from Confucius(551-479 BCE)and Mencius(372-289 BCE),simply.