From chapter 1 1 of The Analects of Confucius in the Spring and Autumn Period.
Original text:
The son said to Yan Yuan, "If you use it, you can do it; if you discard it, you can hide it. Only you and I are husbands! " Lutz said, "If you join the three armed forces, who will join you?" Confucius said, "I don't think so if you die without regrets." I am also afraid of things, and people who are good at it will succeed. "
Translation:
Confucius said to Yan Yuan, "If you use me, I will use it.": Without me, I would hide. Only you and I can do it! Lutz asked Confucius, "Teacher, if you command the three armed forces, who are you with?" Confucius said, "I won't be with a man who fights tigers with his bare hands, wades across the river on foot and never regrets his death." "I must be looking for someone who is careful, good at planning and able to complete the task."
Extended data
Two Books is one of the Analects of Confucius. * * * consists of 38 chapters, which is one of the chapters cited by scholars when studying Confucius and Confucianism. * * * includes six aspects, and puts forward Confucius' educational thought and learning attitude, Confucius' further explanation of important moral categories such as benevolence and morality, and other thoughts of Confucius.
In chapter 1 1, Confucius proposed not to be with people who "died in anger without regrets" to command the army. Because in his view, although such people are desperate, they can't achieve great things without courage. "Courage" is a virtue in Confucius' moral category, but courage is not foolhardy, but a person who is "not afraid of adversity and is resourceful". This kind of person has both wisdom and courage, which meets the requirements of "courage".
The Analects of Confucius is one of the classic works of Confucianism and a collection of recorded essays, which mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples in the form of quotations and dialogues, and embodies Confucius' political, aesthetic, moral and utilitarian values. The content involves politics, education, literature, philosophy and the truth that exists in the world.
As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established; After the death of Confucius, his disciples and re-disciples passed on his remarks from generation to generation, and gradually recorded the words and deeds of these oral quotations, so it was called "On"; The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples, so it is called "language".
The Analects of Confucius consists of 20 articles and 492 chapters, of which 444 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about in time, and 48 chapters record what Confucius and his disciples talked about each other.
As a Confucian classic, The Analects is profound and all-encompassing, and its thoughts mainly include three independent and closely dependent categories: ethics-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, and cognitive methodology category-the mean.
Benevolence, first of all, is the true state in people's hearts. The final compromise must be kindness, and this true and kind state is "benevolence". Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded that courtesy is a reasonable social relationship and a norm to treat people and things, and then expounded the methodological principle of the "golden mean" system. "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.
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