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| − | According to dictionary.com, jen is a compassionate love for humanity or for the world as a whole. This originated from the Chinese. | + | According to dictionary.com, jen is a compassionate love for humanity or for the world as a whole. This originated from the Chinese. Jen as the most valued goal to which the citizens could aspire. In the opinion of Confucius, even the most important people were not born righteous, they needed to be taught goodness. |
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Camille Dawson | Camille Dawson | ||
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they needed to be taught goodness- both ruler and subjects. | they needed to be taught goodness- both ruler and subjects. | ||
It was necessary that the rulers were taught goodness, spiritual and intellectual, because if rulers ruled with unjust harshness and severity meting out excessive punishments and oppressing people, then the people lose their faith in the law, they lose their respect for themselves, they have no sense of shame | It was necessary that the rulers were taught goodness, spiritual and intellectual, because if rulers ruled with unjust harshness and severity meting out excessive punishments and oppressing people, then the people lose their faith in the law, they lose their respect for themselves, they have no sense of shame | ||
Revision as of 21:45, 22 April 2013
According to dictionary.com, jen is a compassionate love for humanity or for the world as a whole. This originated from the Chinese. Jen as the most valued goal to which the citizens could aspire. In the opinion of Confucius, even the most important people were not born righteous, they needed to be taught goodness.
Bibliography:
-http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/jen?s=t
-CF Manual 181
Camille Dawson
People were not born good,
they needed to be taught goodness- both ruler and subjects. It was necessary that the rulers were taught goodness, spiritual and intellectual, because if rulers ruled with unjust harshness and severity meting out excessive punishments and oppressing people, then the people lose their faith in the law, they lose their respect for themselves, they have no sense of shame
