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Moral practice refers to the understanding and action of self-cultivation . This issue is mainly discussed by the Confucians. In the discourse on ming-shi, Confucius, Mencius , and Xun Zi explored the connection of the moral practice with ming and shi by proposing and developing concepts such as ren, yi, li, and xin.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Wing-tsit Chan, A South Book in Chinese Philosophy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), 16.

  2. 2.

    Tu Wei-ming, Confucian Thought (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1985), 85.

  3. 3.

    Herbert Fingarette, Confucius: the secular as Sacred (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 37.

  4. 4.

    Lun Yu–Yan Yuan.

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    Lun Yu–Zi Lu, trans. Chan, 1963, 41.

  7. 7.

    Lun Yu–Shu Er, trans. Chan, 33.

  8. 8.

    Li Zehou, Zhonguo Gudai Sixiang Shi Lun (Beijing: Renmin Chuban She, 1985).

  9. 9.

    David Hall and Roger Ames, Thinking Through Confucius (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987), 115.

  10. 10.

    Chan, 16.

  11. 11.

    Lun Yu–Zi Lu.

  12. 12.

    Lun Yu–Yang Huo.

  13. 13.

    Lun Yu–Xian Wen.

  14. 14.

    Lun Yu–Zi Zhang, trans. Chan, 48.

  15. 15.

    Lun Yu–Yan Yuan.

  16. 16.

    Lun Yu–Yong Ye, trans. Chan, 31.

  17. 17.

    Tu Wei-ming, “The Creative Tension between Jen and Li,” in Philosophy East and West 18, no 1–2 (January–April 1968): 33.

  18. 18.

    Lun Yu–Li Ren.

  19. 19.

    Lun Yu–Shu Er.

  20. 20.

    See the Meng Zi for detail.

  21. 21.

    Tu, 32.

  22. 22.

    Lun Yu–Li Ren, trans. Chen, 26.

  23. 23.

    Tu, 32.

  24. 24.

    Lun Yu–Wei Ling Gong, trans. James Legge, 1970, 122.

  25. 25.

    Lun Yu–Li Ren, trans. Legge, 33.

  26. 26.

    Lun Yu–Shu Er, trans. Chan, 32.

  27. 27.

    Chung-ying Cheng, New Dimensions of Confucian and Neo-Confucian Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), 234.

  28. 28.

    Lun Yu–Ji Shi.

  29. 29.

    Lun Yu–Li Ren.

  30. 30.

    Meng Zi, Chap. 4, trans. Legge, 321–322.

  31. 31.

    Meng Zi, Chap. 6, trans. Legge, 403–404.

  32. 32.

    Ibid.

  33. 33.

    Ibid.

  34. 34.

    Cheng, 241.

  35. 35.

    Meng Zi, Chap. 6.

  36. 36.

    Hall and Ames, 96.

  37. 37.

    Cheng, 237.

  38. 38.

    Lun Yu–Shu Er.

  39. 39.

    Lun Yu–Ba Yi.

  40. 40.

    Fang Dongmei, Zhongguo Ren Sheng Zhexue (Taibei: Liming Wenhua Shiye Gongsi, 1980), 248–489.

  41. 41.

    Jaroslav Pelikan, Reformation of Church and Dogma (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984), 65.

  42. 42.

    Lun Yu–Wei Zheng.

  43. 43.

    Antonio Cua, “The Concept of Li in Confucian Moral Theory,” in Understanding the Chinese Mind, ed. R. Allinson (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 211.

  44. 44.

    Lun Yu–Tai Bo and Ji Shi.

  45. 45.

    Lun Yu–Wei Ling Gong.

  46. 46.

    Lun Yu–Yan Yuan.

  47. 47.

    Ibid.

  48. 48.

    Fingarette, 7.

  49. 49.

    Xun Zi–Xing E.

  50. 50.

    Xun Zi–Ru Xiao.

  51. 51.

    Xun Zi–Xiu Shen.

  52. 52.

    Xun Zi–Jun Dao.

  53. 53.

    Xun Zi–Ru Xiao.

  54. 54.

    Xun Zi–Quan Xue.

  55. 55.

    Xun Zi–Fu Guo, Wang Ba, Jun Dao.

  56. 56.

    Xun Zi–Xiu Shen, Xing E.

  57. 57.

    Xun Zi–Xing E.

  58. 58.

    Xun Zi–Rong Ru.

  59. 59.

    Xun Zi–Xing E.

  60. 60.

    Xun Zi–Xiu Shen, trans. Burton Watson, 1967, 30.

  61. 61.

    Xun Zi–Quan Xue.

  62. 62.

    Xun Zi–Xing E.

  63. 63.

    Lun Yu–Xue Er, trans. Chan, 21.

  64. 64.

    Ibid.

  65. 65.

    Lun Yu–Zi Lu.

  66. 66.

    Lun Yu–Wei Ling Gong.

  67. 67.

    Lun Yu–Yang Huo.

  68. 68.

    Lun Yu–Wei Zheng.

  69. 69.

    Lun Yu–Yao Ye.

  70. 70.

    Lun Yu–Zi Zhang.

  71. 71.

    Lun Yu–Xue Er.

  72. 72.

    Ibid.

  73. 73.

    Lun Yu–Shu Er.

  74. 74.

    Lun Yu–Xian Wen.

  75. 75.

    Lun Yu–Li Ren.

  76. 76.

    Lun Yu–Xian Wen.

  77. 77.

    Lun Yu–Gong Zhi Zhang.

  78. 78.

    I use the two words “illocutionary” and “perlocutionary” in John Austin’s sense.

  79. 79.

    Lao Siguang, Zhongguo Zhexue Shi (Taibei: Sanmin Shuju, 1968).

  80. 80.

    Meng Zi, Chap. 4, trans. Chan, 76.

  81. 81.

    Xun Zi–Zheng Ming, trans. Chan, 125 and Watson, 141.

  82. 82.

    Chen, 142.

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Sun, Z. (2015). Moral Practice and Language. In: Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54865-9_4

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