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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... CHAP… Plus…

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II SELF-DEVELOPMENT The characteristics of the superior man having been presented, it is in logical order to examine the facilities and qualities which Confucius would have one cultivate to attain this ideal state. First in importance is the will. The Will. Their purposes being rectified, they cultivated themselves. By these words in The Great Learning (Text, v. 5) it is meant that when there is no conflict of aims, of duties and desires, when one wills what he wishes, and with all his heart singly and clearly wishes what he wills, then and not till then does the will become clear and firm and strong. The man is his will; back of his will is his purpose; and back of his purpose, his desire. If his knowledge enable him to make right choices, he should be sincere, his desires should be disciplined, his purpose lofty, and, resting thereupon as on a rock, his will fixed and immovable. That is character. Confucius puts it: If the will be set on virtue, 48 there will be no practice of wickedness. (Analects, bk. iv., c. iv.) True; for when the will rests upon set purpose, based upon purified desire, born of knowledge and discriminating investigation of phenomena, nothing can undermine it! This rectification of the antecedent conditions is what the sage refers to when he says: To subdue one''s self and return to propriety is perfect virtue (Analects, bk. xii., c. 1), and again: The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the unpretentious are near to virtue. (Analects, bk. xiii., c. xxvii.) That the will is proved by its resistance rather than its impelling force, Mencius says in this: Men must be resolute about what they will not do and then they are able to act with vigor. (Bk. iv., pt. ii., c. viii.) The same is meant, i. e., that if one''s trust is thus grounded, nothing e... Confucius, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The Ethics Of Confucius; The Sayings Of The Master And His Disciples Upon The Conduct Of "the Superior Man," Books>Religion and Spirituality This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Putnam in 1915 in 357 pages; Subjects: Philosophy, Chinese; Ethics; Ethics, Chinese; Confucian ethics; Conduct of life; Philosophy / General; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical; Philosophy / Eastern; Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Religion / Confucianism; Religion / Devotional;<

ISBN: 9780217277914

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... CHAP… Plus…

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1915. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II SELF-DEVELOPMENT The characteristics of the superior man having been presented, it is in logical order to examine the facilities and qualities which Confucius would have one cultivate to attain this ideal state. First in importance is the will. The Will. Their purposes being rectified, they cultivated themselves. By these words in The Great Learning (Text, v. 5) it is meant that when there is no conflict of aims, of duties and desires, when one wills what he wishes, and with all his heart singly and clearly wishes what he wills, then and not till then does the will become clear and firm and strong. The man is his will; back of his will is his purpose; and back of his purpose, his desire. If his knowledge enable him to make right choices, he should be sincere, his desires should be disciplined, his purpose lofty, and, resting thereupon as on a rock, his will fixed and immovable. That is character. Confucius puts it: If the will be set on virtue, 48 there will be no practice of wickedness. (Analects, bk. iv., c. iv.) True; for when the will rests upon set purpose, based upon purified desire, born of knowledge and discriminating investigation of phenomena, nothing can undermine it! This rectification of the antecedent conditions is what the sage refers to when he says: To subdue one''s self and return to propriety is perfect virtue (Analects, bk. xii., c. 1), and again: The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the unpretentious are near to virtue. (Analects, bk. xiii., c. xxvii.) That the will is proved by its resistance rather than its impelling force, Mencius says in this: Men must be resolute about what they will not do and then they are able to act with vigor. (Bk. iv., pt. ii., c. viii.) The same is meant, i. e., that if one''s trust is thus grounded, nothing e... Confucius, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The Ethics Of Confucius; The Sayings Of The Master And His Disciples Upon The Conduct Of "the Superior Man," Books>Religion and Spirituality, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9780217277914

The Ethics of Confucius The Sayings of the Master and His Disciples Upon the Conduct of "The Superior Man" Author :American Institute for Scientific Research Confucius Miles Menander Da… Plus…

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