Learning to be Reliable: Confucius' Analects
In Karyn L. Lai, Rick Benitez & Hyun Jin Kim (eds.), Cultivating a Good Life in Early Chinese and Ancient Greek Philosophy Perspectives and Reverberations. Bloomsbury. pp. 193-207 (2018)
Abstract
In the Lunyu, Confucius remarks on the implausibility—or impossibility—of a life lacking in xin 信, reliability (2.22). In existing discussions of Confucian philosophy, this aspect of life is often eclipsed by greater emphasis on Confucian values such as ren 仁 (benevolence), li 禮 (propriety) and yi 義 (rightness). My discussion addresses this imbalance by focusing on reliability, extending current debates in two ways. First, it proposes that the common translation of xin as denoting coherence between a person’s words and deeds is inadequate. The translation fails to capture the longer-term consistency in a person’s actions and behaviours in different circumstances across time. Second, it explores how the Lunyu passages discuss the processes of learning that prepare a person for reliable action.Author's Profile
My notes
Similar books and articles
Separation of politics and morality: a commentary on Analects of Confucius.Dongfang Shuo & Lin Hongcheng - 2006 - Frontiers of Philosophy in China 1 (3):401-417.
Confucian Analects; the Great Learning; and, the Doctrine of the Mean. Confucius - 1971 - Dover Constable.
Confucius’s view of learning.Yuanbiao Lin - 2017 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (13):1180-1191.
What Would Confucius Do? – Confucian Ethics and Self-Regulation in Management.Peter R. Woods & David A. Lamond - 2011 - Journal of Business Ethics 102 (4):669-683.
Hsieh Liang-Tso and the Analects of Confucius: Humane Learning as a Religious Quest.Thomas W. Selover - 2003 - Oxford University Press USA.
Transmitting and Innovating in Confucius: Analects 7:1.Jiyuan Yu - 2012 - Asian Philosophy 22 (4):375-386.
Richard Wilhelm's Gernan Translation of "Ren" in the Confucian Analects.Kun Wu - 1999 - Philosophy and Culture 26 (6):498-505.
Hsieh Liang-Tso and the Analects of Confucius: Humane Learning as a Religious Quest.Thomas W. Selover - 2005 - Oup Usa.
A Critique of Confucian Learning: On Learners and Knowledge.Ruyu Hung - 2016 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 48 (1):85-96.
A Theory of Learning (学) in Confucian Perspective.Chung-Ying Cheng - 2016 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 48 (1):52-63.
The Sayings of Confucius a New Translation.James Roland Ware & Confucius - 1955 - The New American Library of World Literature.
Confucian ethics and japanese management practices.Marc J. Dollinger - 1988 - Journal of Business Ethics 7 (8):575 - 584.
Frankness: On the "Zhi" in the Analects of Confucius.Yong-Kang Ma - 2007 - Modern Philosophy 5:62-69.
Analytics
Added to PP
2020-04-17
Downloads
375 (#30,880)
6 months
80 (#13,164)
2020-04-17
Downloads
375 (#30,880)
6 months
80 (#13,164)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Confucius and the varifocal stance.Karyn Lai & Mog Stapleton - 2022 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e260.
Genealogy as Meditation and Adaptation with the Han Feizi.Lee Wilson - 2022 - The Monist 105 (4):452-469.
Learning from exemplars in Confucius’ Analects: The centrality of reflective observation.Yu-Yi Lai & Karyn Lai - forthcoming - Educational Philosophy and Theory.
References found in this work
Confucius Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries.Edward G. Slingerland - 2003 - Hackett Publishing.
The Original Analects: Sayings of Confucius and His Successors.E. Bruce Brooks & A. Taeko Brooks - 1998 - Columbia University Press.