epub |eng | 2004-10-27 | Author:Mencius & D. C. Lau [Mencius & Lau, D. C.]

3. Wan Chang asked, ‘May I ask about friendship?’ ‘In making friends with others,’ said Mencius, ‘do not rely on the advantage of age, position or powerful relations. In making ...

epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Confucius [Confucius]

epub |eng | 2017-07-14 | Author:Peimin Ni

子罕第九 Book 9 9.1子罕言利，与命，与仁。 The Master rarely (han 罕) spoke (yan 言) about profit (li 利). He would rather leave it to (yu 与) destiny (ming 命) and to (yu ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Michael R. Slater

JOHN CHRYSOSTOM John Chrysostom’s observation of childish behavior—that children are particularly prone to anger and greed—is similar to that of Augustine, except that, unlike Augustine, he does not seem to ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-12 | Author:Joshua R. Brown

Balthasar’s conception of Trinitarian kenosis is appreciably distinct. For Barth, Trinitarian kenosis involves an explicit theology of Trinitarian subordination, though glossed as “eternal” subordination to distinguish it from Arianism.46 Balthasar, ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-05 | Author:Xunzi

Those who cross waters mark out the deep places, but if the markers are not clear, people will fall in.20 Those who order the people mark (240) out the Way, ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-14 | Author:Cai, Liang

CHAPTER FIVE Begin in the Middle Who Entrusted Ru with Political Power? The elevation of ru learning as state ideology is often associated with the creation of a giant empire, ...

azw3 |eng | 2014-09-29 | Author:Confucius

11.23 When Confucius found his life under threat in Kuang, Yan Hui fell behind. [Later, when they reunited,] Confucius said, “I thought you were dead.” Yan Hui replied, “With you, ...

azw3 |eng | 1979-09-26 | Author:Confucius

BOOK XVIII 1. The Viscount of Wei left him, the Viscount of Chi became a slave on account of him and Pi Kan lost his life for remonstrating with him.1 ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-02 | Author:Daniel K. Gardner

MAINTAINING PERFECT BALANCE MAINTAINING PERFECT BALANCE 27 [Zhu Xi glosses the title as follows: “Zhong is a term meaning ‘neither to one side nor the other; neither to overshoot nor ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-04 | Author:A. Charles Muller

Killing life in order to nourish life is like one’s own child killing a sibling in order to nourish itself. If children are killing each other in order to nourish ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-09 | Author:Burton Watson

Their rites and ceremonies are entirely according to rule, Their laughter and talk are entirely appropriate.10 Rites are strictest in their ordering of birth and death. Birth is the beginning ...

epub |eng | | Author:Schuman, Michael [Schuman, Michael]

CONFUCIUS PERSONALLY SET the standard for studiousness in East Asia. He took immense pride in his lifelong search for knowledge and considered his undying love of learning to be his ...

epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Robinson, Douglas

4.2 Aristotle/Mencius: doxa/wén 聞 as Feeling-Becoming-Thinking If we can provisionally agree, then, that doxa/wén 聞 is a kind of collective/circulatory hearing-the-news/opinion-becoming-reputation entelechy—members of Group A circulating (telling/hearing) opinions of Individual ...

epub |eng | 2009-09-15 | Author:Mengzi

* * * 1 On Zichan, see 5A2.4 and the commentary to that passage. 2 “The mean” is what is neither excessive nor deficient for a particular context (cf. 4B10). ...