Chinese Political Philosophy

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A. A. Knopf, 1925 - 110 頁
 

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第 71 頁 - Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils, — no, nor the human race, as I believe, — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
第 65 頁 - Quite the contrary. People are not so easily got out of their old forms as some are apt to suggest. They are hardly to be prevailed with to amend the acknowledged faults in the frame they have been accustomed to.
第 93 頁 - "If good men were to govern a country in succession for a hundred years, they would be able to transform the violently bad, and dispense with capital punishments.
第 41 頁 - ... to be above the power of riches and honors to make dissipated, of poverty and mean condition to make swerve from principle, and of power and force to make bend — these characteristics constitute the great man.
第 57 頁 - Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.
第 96 頁 - Never has there been a case of the sovereign loving benevolence, and the people not loving righteousness. Never has there been a case where the people have loved righteousness, and the affairs of the sovereign have not been carried to completion. And never has there been a case where the wealth in such a State, collected in the treasuries and arsenals, did not continue in the sovereign's possession.
第 74 頁 - Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all ? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend when the wind blows across it.
第 97 頁 - All who have the government of the kingdom with its States and families have nine standard rules to follow : — viz, the cultivation of their own characters ; the honoring of men of virtue and talents ; affection towards their relatives ; respect towards the great ministers ; kind and considerate treatment of the whole body of officers ; dealing with the mass of the people as children ; encouraging the resort of all classes of artisans ; indulgent treatment of men from a distance ; and the kindly...
第 93 頁 - Though a man may be able to recite the three hundred odes, yet if, when intrusted with a governmental charge, he knows not how to act, or if, when sent to any quarter on a mission, he cannot give his replies unassisted, notwithstanding the extent of his learning, of what practical use is it?
第 97 頁 - When he who presides over a State or a family makes his revenues his chief business, he must be under the influence of some small, mean man. He may consider this man to be good ; but when such a person is employed in the administration of a State or family, calamities from Heaven, and injuries from men, will...

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