To Learn and to Practice

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Key Takeaway: To Learn and to Practice.

To Learn and to Practice. Is this not a pleasure?. Ren (仁, rén) is a central Confucian ethical term often translated as humaneness, benevolence, humanity, or human-heartedness. These renderings overlap without being exact synonyms; in the Analects, Ren names a cultivated quality of humane relationship and conduct. • Is this not a pleasure?

As Confucius taught in the Analects and as the Confucian tradition of virtue and self-cultivation holds, To Learn and to Practice.

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What Is Ren

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The Golden Rule

Ren (仁, rén) is a central Confucian ethical term often translated as humaneness, benevolence, humanity, or human-heartedness..

What you do not wish, do not do to others

These renderings overlap without being exact synonyms; in the Analects, Ren names a cultivated quality of humane relationship and conduct..

Do Not Yield

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When rightness is at stake, even to your teacher

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Care for All

Ren (仁, rén) is a central Confucian ethical term often translated as humaneness, benevolence, humanity, or human-heartedness..

The old at peace, friends trusted, the young cherished

These renderings overlap without being exact synonyms; in the Analects, Ren names a cultivated quality of humane relationship and conduct..

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