“The standard of humaneness lies in loving others and not in loving the self. The standard of rightness lies in rectifying the self and not in rectifying others.” So says Dong Zhongshu, the Confucian philosopher of the 2nd century BC. He was particularly concerned with humaneness in his teaching as a basis for ethics that […]
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