Junzi 君子 as a Personal Model Presented in the Analects and Ethos bound with This Model
Abstract
The following paper discusses concept of paradigmatic person junzi 君子 and ethos in Analects. Paradigmatic person junzi is an Confucian ideal man, responsible for maintaining dao in a family, social group and state by practicing a ren relations with other people hence helping them to build harmonious society. In the first part I shortly analyze what is ren and amiable virtues, in the second part I describe paradigmatic person’s most important features as well as junzi’s opposite xiao ren 小人 (small man) such as presented in Confucius’ Analects.
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