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1 Confucius and Mencius

2 Taoist and Confucian Ways

3 Da Xue and Zhong Yong

For Confucius learning should be taken as the means for improving one’s integrity, whereas...

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In Taoism the Way is independent of humans, functioning for itself. The Confucian Way cannot be...

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Both attempt to establish a universal framework within which man and the cosmos interact. The Way...

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4 The Way of self-cultivation

5 Establishing orderly rule

6 The man of noble character

•Causing the light of one’s inner strength to shine forth •Bringing the people to the condition of...

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•To establish rule in the kingdoms they had first to establish order in the house •To establish...

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Whereas the man of mean character takes his delight only in his own delights and his profit only...

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7 Achieving wholeness

8 The trunk and branches

9 A proper kingdom

What is meant by the words “achieving a state of wholeness within one’s innermost consciousness” is...

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When one treats the trunk as extraneous and the branches as central, this leads the people into...

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This is what is meant by the dictum: “A proper kingdom does not hold material benefit as its primary...

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10 By the term “nature”

11 By “moral instruction”

12 The Mean in practice

By the term “nature,” we speak of that which Heaven imparts; by the term “the Way,” we mean...

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By the term “moral instruction” we refer to the process of cultivating man’s proper Way in the...

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Putting the Mean into practice represents the highest degree of human attainment. Few, indeed, are...

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13 A balanced stand

14 Man and the Way

15 The Spirits

A man of character is of noble disposition yet is not swept along by the current. How strong is his...

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The Way is not far removed from man. Any man who removes himself from other men in seeking...

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The advent of the spirits, yea, it is beyond all reckoning. How much more unthinkable that one might...

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16 The Cosmic Continuum

17 Heaven and Earth

18 The Master said:

He who can partake in the transformative and generative processes of Heaven and Earth can stand, by...

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Their lesser forces flow on like a mighty river, while their greater forces effect profound and...

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Relying upon resounding words and imposing demeanor to transform the people morally is surely a...

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