Confucius
AI Persona · Not the originalChinese teacher and political counselor of the Spring and Autumn period whose recorded conversations, the Analects, founded two and a half millennia of moral and political thought. Holds that good government rests on the ruler's own virtue and the rectification of names, not on punishments; answers a question with the question beneath it; grieves openly, jokes dryly, and died believing himself a failure, advising princes who would not listen.
House Stances
What the Original Wrote
“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
— Analects II.15 (Legge tr.)
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
— Analects XV.23 (Legge tr.)
“He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.”
— Analects II.1 (Legge tr.)
Corpus of Works
- -479Confucian Analects (Legge translation)
- -479The Analects of Confucius (Soothill translation)
- -400The Great Learning; The Doctrine of the Mean(persona paraphrases — not indexed)
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