Zhu Xi

These passages all show how those sovereigns made themselves illustrious.

Zhu Xi's Note the above first chapter of commentary explains the illustration of illustrious virtue chapter two on the bathing-tub of tang the following words were engraved If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

Yea, let there be daily renovation.

In the announcement to Kang, it is said, To stir up the new people.

In the book of poetry, it is said, Although Zhou was an ancient state, the ordinance which lighted on it was new.

Therefore, the superior man in everything uses his utmost endeavors.

Zhu Xi's Note the above second chapter of commentary explains the renovating of the people chapter three in the book of poetry it is said the imperial domain of a thousand thee is where the people

rest

But these girls, the least of the entire Confucian social tier in the family, are going to be the little saviors of their family.

And if we wanna get really, like, Zhu Xi's da xue, great learning about it, from the little family extends all the way back out to the kingdom.

Hmm.

As, you know, as, as with the line that you close that chapter with, um, "If a girl can save her family from heavenly retribution with her voice, she might grow into a woman who could help save the empire one day too, with every grain picked off the ground and every infant girl allowed to live." Um, so very much that, that from the small grows-- from the small, from the small act, from the small individual grows the empire's, um, salvation.

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The Great Learning by Confucius, with ten commentary chapters by Zengzi, and notes by Zhu Xi.

Translated by James Legge.

Zhu Xi's note.

My Master, the Philosopher Chung, says, "The Great Learning is a book left by Confucius, and forms the gate by which first learners enter into virtue.

That we can now perceive the order in which the ancients pursued their learning is solely owing to the preservation of this work, the Analects and Mencius coming after it.

The common people delight in what they delighted, and are benefited by their beneficial arrangements.

It is on this account that the former kings, after they have quitted the world, are not forgotten.

Always read and follow label instructions.

THE GREAT LEARNING The Great Learning by Confucius, with ten commentary chapters by Zeng Zi, and notes by Zhu Xi, translated by James Legg.

Zhu Xi's Note My master, the philosopher, Cheng, says, The great learning is a book left by Confucius, and forms the gate by which first learners enter into virtue.

That we can now perceive the order in which the ancients pursued their learning is solely owing to the preservation of this work, the Analects and Mencius coming after it.

Learners must commence their course with this, and then it may be hoped they will be kept from error.

note the preceding chapter of classical text is in the words of confucius handed down by the philosopher the ten chapters of explanation which follow contain the views of tsang and were recorded by his disciples in the old copies of the work there appeared considerable confusion in these from the disarrangement of the tablets but now availing myself of the decisions of the philosopher chang and having examined anew the classical text i have arranged it in order as follows commentary of the philosopher tsang chapter i in the announcement to kang it is said he was able to make his virtue illustrious in the taijia it is said he contemplated and studied the illustrious decrees of heaven In the canon of the Emperor Yao, it is said, he was able to make illustrious his lofty virtue.

These passages all show how those sovereigns made themselves illustrious.

Zhu Xi's Note the above first chapter of commentary explains the illustration of illustrious virtue chapter two on the bathing-tub of tang the following words were engraved If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.

And we also have to highlight the Neo-Confucian synthesis.

Later, brilliant thinkers like Zhu Xi in the Song dynasty and Wang Yangming in the Ming dynasty didn't just ignore the Taoists and Buddhists.

They actively combined them.

They took the cosmic patterns of the I Ching, the inner moral sprouts of Mencius, and the deep metaphysical challenges of Taoism and wove them into a massive, unified new philosophical framework that dominated East Asia for centuries.

The theme was always chosen from either the four books or the five classics.

The writer could not express any opinions of his own or any views at variance with those expressed by Zhu Xi and his school.

All he was required to do was to put the few words of Confucius, or whomsoever it might be, into an essay in conformity with the prescribed rules.

Degrees, which were to serve as passports to government positions, were awarded the best writers.

Most societies have this respect for the learning of the ancients, okay? Or, you know, what I call intellectual ancestor worship.

Um, it is very strong in Chinese culture, in particular, where there's really two great thinkers, Confucius and Zhu Xi, uh, who essentially wrote down the way people should behave, and there was no arguing with that.

You know, you wanna know something, you wanna learn something, you read the Analects or you read Zhu Xi.

Uh, th- my fa-- my forefathers, who were European Jews, were the same way.

You know, you wanna know something? Look it up in the, in the Holy Scriptures.

Ba-da-da-ba-ba.

THE GREAT LEARNING The Great Learning by Confucius, with ten commentary chapters by Zeng Zi, and notes by Zhu Xi, translated by James Legg.

Zhu Xi's Note My master, the philosopher, Cheng, says, The great learning is a bug left by Confucius, and forms the gate by which first learners enter into virtue.

That we can now perceive the order in which the ancients pursued their learning is solely owing to the preservation of this work, the Analects and Mencius coming after it.

learners must commence their course with this and then it may be hoped they will be kept from error the text of confucius what the great learning teaches is to illustrate illustrious virtue to renovate the people and to rest in the highest excellence the point where to rest being known the object of pursuit is then determined and that being determined a calm unperturbedness may be attained to that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end.

commentary of the philosopher zang chapter i in the announcement to kang it is said he was able to make his virtue illustrious in the taijia it is said he contemplated and studied the illustrious decrees of heaven In the canon of the emperor Yao, it is said, he was able to make illustrious his lofty virtue.

These passages all show how those sovereigns made themselves illustrious.

Zhu Xi's Note the above first chapter of commentary explains the illustration of illustrious virtue chapter two on the bathing-tub of tang the following words were engraved If you can one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day.