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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: Confucius: Mencius 5B.8: scholars & friends (fwd)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:09:56 -0500 (EST)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 08:20:45 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas <tc266@hotmail.com> Reply-To: confucius@lists.gnacademy.org To: confucius@lists.gnacademy.org Subject: Confucius: Mencius 5B.8: scholars & friends After the discussion of the etiquette of the relations between Confucian scholars and princes, here we have the joyful and free friendship between the best scholars themselves, that even extends to a spiritual friendship with the scholars of antiquity. This last type of trans-historical friendship reminds me of Confucius: The Master said, "Extreme is my decay. For a long time, I have not dreamed, as I was wont to do, that I saw the duke of Chou." (Analects 7.5) Thomas *** 1. Mencius said to Wan Chang, 'The scholar whose virtue is most distinguished in a village shall make friends of all the virtuous scholars in the village. The scholar whose virtue is most distinguished throughout a State shall make friends of all the virtuous scholars of that State. The scholar whose virtue is most distinguished throughout the kingdom shall make friends of all the virtuous scholars of the kingdom. 2. 'When a scholar feels that his friendship with all the virtuous scholars of the kingdom is not sufficient to satisfy him, he proceeds to ascend to consider the men of antiquity. He repeats their poems, and reads their books, and as he does not know what they were as men, to ascertain this, he considers their history. This is to ascend and make friends of the men of antiquity.' __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ---------------------------------------------------------+ Confucius Mailing List (confucius@lists.gnacademy.org). Via the Globewide Network Academy (http://www.gnacademy.org) If you would like to unsubscribe from the mailing list send the following command to majordomo@lists.gnacademy.org unsubscribe confucius If you would prefer only a daily digest, then subscribe yourself to the confucius-digest mailing list by sending the command subscribe confucius-digest to the majordomo@lists.gnacademy.org and unsubscribe from this list