Practice righteousness (Yi).
Practice righteousness (Asteya).
A potential problem with the appeal to Heaven arises from the way the Mohists' concept of a fa (model) runs together the notions of a criterion of righteousness, a practical guideline, and a role model.
Pious editorials declaring journalists' devotion to truth and fervently exalting the First Amendment may be justified, but as a practical matter, eloquent self-righteousness seems unlikely to be an effective weapon in the war against the war on truth.
Righteousness for me is not about adherence to doctrine, but the practical everyday application of loving your neighbour, sharing with those less fortunate than yourself and living by a code that is bound by its belief in the abolition of poverty and the creation of a just and equal country.
Note that the practical pursuits that Vātsyāyana mentions as guided by second-order, reflective knowledge are: "righteousness (dharma), wealth, pleasure, [and] liberation".
He may sin, lose the purity of his heart, and expose himself, as a practical agent, to blame; but he must have a keen sense of purity and impurity, righteousness and sin, good and evil.
5-8, & 12 1-2) is the (only) systematic explanation of the practical dynamics of laying a hold of the infinite riches of personal growth from sin to righteousness in practice (and as such the foundation for fulfilling interpersonal relationships — spring quarter).
