Moreover, while still maintaining the importance of the norms and ritual action for character-building and the social order, Zhu began to emphasize the need to build up a sympathetic but realistic grasp of the warp and woof of real daily human life viewed in the perspective of such broad Confucian ethical ideals as humaneness (ren) and fairness (gong).
No doubt loyalty and trustworthiness were integral to the Confucian ethic, but equally important were more universal ethical prescriptions such as humaneness (jin).
"This book sketches some of the difficulties faced by our civilisation – a civilisation which might perhaps be described as aiming at humaneness and reasonableness, at equality and freedom; a civilisation which is still in its infancy, as it were, and which continues to grow in spite of the fact that it has been so often betrayed by so many of the intellectual leaders of mankind".
Ren, ( Chinese: "humanity," "humaneness," "goodness," "benevolence," or "love") Wade-Giles romanization jen, the foundational virtue of Confucianism.
On this basis, he goes on to formulate the definition of ren (humanity, humaneness) for the subsequent tradition: "the essential character of mind" and "the essential pattern of love".
Can't they be just family values, something that we all treasure as a mark of our fundamental humanity and humaneness?
He talks about Isaac Asimov (an inspiration explicitly acknowledged within the show) and the transition from humaneness to human-ness, from consciousness to conscience.
So would the "rise of humaneness", as highly developed automation would leave to us the tasks through which we can express our humanity.
Furthermore, most acknowledged that the mind is endowed with the four beginnings of this goodness as expressed in humaneness, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom.
While Neo-Confucians affirmed the ancient and fundamental meaning of humaneness as the "golden rule," they added substantially to the meaning of humaneness by suggesting that being truly humane led one to become mystically one body with everything in existence.
"Artistic pursuits help children develop qualities such as empathy, compassion and humaneness through creativity, while exploring the wonders of their own imagination.
