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Key Takeaway: Review the Old to Know the New.
Review the Old to Know the New. Then you can teach. In early Zhou usage, 君子 could carry status language associated with a ruler's lineage; the Analects uses the term in ethical and educational contrasts, but the history is not a single proven conversion from rank to morality. In Analects 4.16, the junzi understands yi (义, what is right or fitting), while the xiaoren (小人) understands profit. • Then you can teach
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As Confucius taught in the Analects and as the Confucian tradition of virtue and self-cultivation holds, Review the Old to Know the New.
— Oriens
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