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All these interpretations, however, share two notions: every human being has the capacity to possess ren, and ren manifests itself when a virtuous person treats others with humaneness.
Gi was often combined with humaneness to form the compound, jingi, indicating humaneness and justice, inherently political virtues that established the clear legitimacy of a regime embodying them.
Humaneness is not just a matter of considerateness and paying due respect; Zhu Xi underscores the rigors of conducting oneself sincerely and authentically with humaneness, citing Confucius' examples of not only ministers who had declined official posts to maintain their integrity but of times when the exemplary person is willing to sacrifice his or her own life to fulfill humanity (Analects 15.8).
Zhu Xi moreover correlates "origination, growth, flourishing and firmness", the fourfold initial stages of creativity and production in the cosmos and nature first mentioned in early commentaries on the Book of Change, with humaneness, appropriateness, ritual conduct and wisdom, the four cardinal virtues enunciated by Confucius.
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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".
The government-appointed independent expert panel (IEP) charged with assessing the humaneness, effectiveness and safety of free shooting in the first year of pilot culls in Gloucestershire and Somerset concluded that the method failed to meet predetermined criteria for effectiveness or 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.
As a civilized society, we owe it to animals to treat them with compassion and humaneness.
Can't they be just family values, something that we all treasure as a mark of our fundamental humanity and humaneness?
Mencius argued for the inborn goodness of humanity, noting how that goodness issued naturally from a mind endowed with the beginnings of humaneness, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom.
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