Ren, ( Chinese: "humanity," "humaneness," "goodness," "benevolence," or "love") Wade-Giles romanization jen, the foundational virtue of Confucianism.
Pervasive, the impulse to produce appears in each and every one of the myriad creatures while in human beings it is refined into the virtue of "humaneness", which, when fully realized, involves one's caring attitude and dedicated responsibility toward others.
The interpenetration of the cosmos and the individual was pursued along several other lines as well, perhaps most notably in the new explanations of the ancient Confucian notion of humaneness in terms of forming one body with everything in the universe.
"The pilot culls performed so poorly in effectiveness and humaneness, I would stop and invest in something more promising," she said.
This is Brecht at his most didactic, exposing a "humanity without humaneness", attacking the exploitative greed of businessmen in search of oil and demanding: "Where there's abuse, do something".
Two pilot culls held in Somerset and Gloucestershire last Autumn fell short of their targets in terms of humaneness and the number of badgers killed and the government is now considering whether to extend the culls across the country.
Badger welfare, in terms of humaneness, was evaluated by comparing the night-time activity periods of badgers and by monitoring their daytime use of setts.
Or, find resources for continued living through surreptitiously nurtured appreciations of the sacred and beautiful, of irony and tragic comedy, while cultivating hope and patience aided by discoveries and creations of beauty and humaneness in the midst of the physical and soul-distorting psychological brutalities of enforced impoverishments of conditions that were not in any way "mundane" living?
Subsequently, the more ethical human phenomena one observes and considers in advanced level learning and cultivation, the more one feels a broad sympathy for others that transcends the narrowly-graded love, the so-called love with distinctions that is attributed to the notion of ren (humaneness) in Confucianism (see Mencius, 1A.7, 3A.5, and 7A.45).
One staff member remarked that there was: … more humaneness in the staff's behaviour towards patients.
