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Key Takeaway: Shu (恕, shù) is a Confucian term associated with reciprocity: using one’s own response as a measure for how to treat others.

Shu (恕, shù) is a Confucian term associated with reciprocity: using one’s own response as a measure for how to treat others. In Analects 15.24, Confucius names shu in response to Zigong’s request for one guiding word and then states the negative reciprocity maxim.

As Confucius taught in the Analects and as the Confucian tradition of virtue and self-cultivation holds, Shu (恕, shù) is a Confucian term associated with reciprocity: using one’s own response as a measure for how to treat others.

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