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Sinica venetiana
Edited book | Linking Ancient and Contemporary
Chapter | Measuring Human Relations
Measuring Human Relations
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu
- Tiziana Lippiello - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile
Abstract
In Chinese literature the locus classicus of what in the West has been called «the Golden Rule» is traditionally considered a passage from the Lunyu (Analects) in which Zigong, one of Confucius’ favourite disciples, asks his Master for a principle that can guide man’s behaviour. In the sentence «What you don’t want done to yourself, do not do to others» , the Master defined shu, a character variably translated as ‘reciprocity’, ‘empathy’, ‘consideration of others’ or ‘do unto others as you would have others do unto you’. Shu is one of the most widely debated and controversial assertions of Confucian ethics, not only because of the alleged analogy with the biblical «golden rule», but also because of its semantic richness, as we discover from reading the Analects and other writings. However, shu alone does not fully express the Chinese notion of concern and love for others. Shu, zhong and ren are concepts which recur in Lunyu and concur to define our perception of the Chinese golden rule in Confucian thought.
Submitted: July 16, 2016 | Language: it
Keywords Lunyu • Consideration of others • Analects • Empathy • Shu • Golden Rule
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Introduction
- Introduction
- Tiziana Lippiello, Maddalena Barenghi, Chen Yuehong 陈跃红
Part 1 Pre-Modern and Modern Literature
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Measuring Human Relations
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu - Tiziana Lippiello
- Bai Shouyi on Sima Qian and Ban Gu
- Hans van Ess
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'中国'之义:文中子的立身与存心
The Notion of ‘Zhongguo’: The Life and Thought of Wenzhongzi - Zhang Pei 张沛
- On the Literary Self-Consciousness of the Han, Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties
- Fu Gang 傅刚
- Traditional Chinese Jestbooks and Ming Revival
- Giulia Baccini
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《水浒传》评论中对立思维的三次递进
On the Three Stages of Contradictory Comments of The Water Margin - Liu Yongqiang 刘永强
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Becoming a Couple
Conversations and Couple Narrative in the Novella Jiao Hong ji - Barbara Bisetto
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The Chapter Titles in Xiyou ji and Honglou meng
Continuity and Discontinuity - Nicholas Koss
Part 2 Contemporary Literature
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‘晚郁时期’的中国当代文学
'The Belated Mellow Period' of Chinese Contemporary Literature - Chen Xiaoming 陈晓明
- Honma Hisao’s model of Literary Theory and its Influence in China
- Jin Yongbing 金永兵
- The Disillusionment with the Rural Utopia in Chinese Literature
- Wu Xiaodong 吴晓东
Part 3 Poetry and Theatre
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Traditions and Transitions in Eighteenth-Century Qu Poetry
The Case of Jiang Shiquan (1725-1785) - Tian Yuan Tan
- Feng Zhi and Goethe of Later Years
- Zhang Hui 张辉
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What’s the Link between the Lyrical and Modernity in China?
A Discussion on Chinese lyrical Modernity - Li Yang 李杨
- Poetic Taste and Tasting Poetry
- Yang Zhu 杨铸
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Voices of the Dead
Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death - Qin Liyan 秦立彦
Part 4 Language and Political Discourse
- Modernity and Subjectivity from the Past to the Present
- Yang Xiaobin 杨小滨
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The Evolution of Metaphorical Language in Contemporary Chinese Political Discourse
Preliminary Evidence from the 12th and 18th CPC Congresses - Paolo Magagnin
-
论“底”来源于“者”
On the Derivation of ‘di’ 底 from ‘zhě’ 者 - Yang Rongxiang 杨荣祥
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Measuring Human Relations. Continuities and Discontinuities in the Reading of the Lunyu |
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In Chinese literature the locus classicus of what in the West has been called «the Golden Rule» is traditionally considered a passage from the Lunyu (Analects) in which Zigong, one of Confucius’ favourite disciples, asks his Master for a principle that can guide man’s behaviour. In the sentence «What you don’t want done to yourself, do not do to others» , the Master defined shu, a character variably translated as ‘reciprocity’, ‘empathy’, ‘consideration of others’ or ‘do unto others as you would have others do unto you’. Shu is one of the most widely debated and controversial assertions of Confucian ethics, not only because of the alleged analogy with the biblical «golden rule», but also because of its semantic richness, as we discover from reading the Analects and other writings. However, shu alone does not fully express the Chinese notion of concern and love for others. Shu, zhong and ren are concepts which recur in Lunyu and concur to define our perception of the Chinese golden rule in Confucian thought. |
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Sinica venetiana |
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing |
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2016-09-29 |
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2016-07-16 |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-098-3/measuring-human-relations/ |
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10.14277/6969-095-2/SV-3-1 |
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2610-9654 |
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2610-9042 |
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978-88-6969-098-3 |
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978-88-6969-095-2 |
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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Analects |
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Analects |
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Consideration of others |
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Consideration of others |
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Empathy |
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Empathy |
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Golden Rule |
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Golden Rule |
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Lunyu |
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Lunyu |
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Shu |
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Shu |
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