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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #2: I'll try to be a bit more regular in future with the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/gentleman-part-4-last-3923#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #2: I'll try to be a bit more regular in future with the postings. Questions are welcome, though I'm not sure how promptly they will be answered.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:40:39 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is very interesting!  Thank you for posting the 4 posts about the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is very interesting!  Thank you for posting the 4 posts about the junzi.  It was interesting reading about the concept of leading by example and rising about others while demonstrating how others should live their lives.   ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:40:12 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "gentleman" (part 4 and last)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/gentleman-part-4-last-3923</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #2: I'll try to be a bit more regular in future with the postings. Questions are welcome, though I'm not sure how promptly they will be answered.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:52:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "gentleman" (part 3)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/gentleman-part-3-3919</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Master said, “He does not resent it when others do not understand him – that is a gentleman!” (I/1)Confucianism is a social philosophy obsessed with individual effort and self-realization. Thus, although the junzi aims to influence society, he is not necessarily influenced by it, and he will cheerfully disregard “public opinion” (IX/3, XV/23). The commitment to the social group is to the group as it should be, not as it is....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:44:37 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "gentleman" (part 2)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/gentleman-part-2-3917</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Master said, “In the affairs of the world, there is nothing the gentleman is determined to approve of or to reject. His standard is what is right.” (IV/10)First and foremost, a junzi is committed to doing what is morally right (yi, whose word family means “correct, fitting”), rather than what may be expedient (IV/16). He is consistently ren, selfless or altruistic (another core term we will interpret later) (IV/5). However, he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:40:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The "gentleman" (part 1)]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/gentleman-part-1-3915</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Master said, “I have not been able to see a sage. It will be enough to see a gentleman.” (VII/26)The word junzi, meaning literally prince-child and usually translated “gentleman,” represents the attainable ideal of moral selfhood for Confucius. There are higher states, such as the sheng “sage,” but at least for Confucius, these are not considered within reach except for a handful of exceptionally endowed individuals from the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:50:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Welcome back.  I'm sorry to hear you weren't well.  I hope all is...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/redefinitions-3519#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Welcome back.  I'm sorry to hear you weren't well.  I hope all is better now.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:19:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Sorry to hear about your health issues, and very glad you're back! I...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/redefinitions-3519#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Sorry to hear about your health issues, and very glad you're back! I will take some more time to read this before I comment further.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:50:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The next two posts will be on these two terms and how Confucius modified...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/redefinitions-3519#2</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The next two posts will be on these two terms and how Confucius modified them. Apologies for the delay in posting; I was not very well. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:23:38 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Redefinitions]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/redefinitions-3519</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The next two posts will be on these two terms and how Confucius modified them. Apologies for the delay in posting; I was not very well. ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:21:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #6: Some recovered texts are pretty clear; others require...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/how-were-confucious-writings-distrubuted-3177#7</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #6: Some recovered texts are pretty clear; others require all the resources of modern science to make legible. This website has a picture of a slip from the Han dynasty that is in fairly poor condition, but still readable. Quite a few texts, including some that seem related to the modern Analects, have been found. There are also shorter inscriptions on bronze vessels and, earliest of all, the so-called &quot;oracle bone&quot; texts...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:52:30 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #5: Wow!  I didn't know that things were written on bamboo...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/how-were-confucious-writings-distrubuted-3177#6</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #5: Wow!  I didn't know that things were written on bamboo skips or silk.  That is fascinating.  The fact that they are still readable today is incredible.  ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 11:30:36 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #1: There was a major debate between 100 BCE and 100 CE or...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #1: There was a major debate between 100 BCE and 100 CE or so in the Confucian school over whether oral or written transmission was more reliable. I'll try to get into it later. One thing to remember is that at the time, books were written on either bamboo slips or silk fabric, and both media are extremely durable. The traditional tales of books being hidden and then dug up again many years later are not entirely impossible -- we...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:24:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Confucius is also credited with a mass of other literary work: he is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Confucius is also credited with a mass of other literary work: he is supposed to have edited the Canon of Poetry, rewritten and recast the history of his own state of Lu (inserting subtle moral hints into the text), and written some of the later material appended to the Canon of Changes (Yijing), among other things. It may perhaps be true that he did something with the text of the Poetry, but the other claims are not normally considered...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:21:35 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'll respond to this briefly now, and come back with more detail in a...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'll respond to this briefly now, and come back with more detail in a few days -- things are a bit hectic right now.As far as we know, Confucius himself wrote nothing. He taught his students orally, using the ancient canonical texts as material when appropriate. We do not know the form the canon had during his time, but he did use an early version of the Canon of Poetry, and probably parts of the Canon of Documents as well, with some harder to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 02:14:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is an excellent question!  I'd like to know this, as well.  I'm...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This is an excellent question!  I'd like to know this, as well.  I'm assuming that during this time period, his teachings would have been passed down orally, but I'm curious to know the answer to your last question.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:24 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How were Confucious' Writings Distributed?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/how-were-confucious-writings-distrubuted-3177</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Who read them at the time, and how? Did they find their widest audience as an oral or written tradition?   ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 05:25:18 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #3: Confucian spirituality is a tad tricky. It changes, even...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/confucius-popularity-2995#5</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #3: Confucian spirituality is a tad tricky. It changes, even between the time of Confucius and that of his immediate disciples.One thing to keep in mind is that the notion of original sin is utterly alien to Confucian, and indeed Chinese, thought. A person may be bad because he or she is ignorant or deluded, or just plain stupid, but no one has to be bad. The bad in some way choose to be bad, or are deluded into error by the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 14:17:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In reply to #2: Thank you.  This helps very much!]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/confucius-popularity-2995#4</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In reply to #2: Thank you.  This helps very much!]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:01:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[His wisdom, common sense, and spirituality make him popular then and today.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/earlyconfucianism/group/discuss/confucius-popularity-2995#3</link>
        <description><![CDATA[His wisdom, common sense, and spirituality make him popular then and today.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 11:56:36 PST</pubDate>
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