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Wang Fuzhi , the great Confucian scholar of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, wrote, “What is known as destiny, what is known as human nature, what is known as the Dao, and what is known as teaching, are all unified in the single word sincerity” 曰命曰性曰道曰教無不受統於此一誠字 (yue yue xing yue dao yue jiao wu bu shou tong yu ci yi cheng zi) (Wang 1996a, p. 996)
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Chen, Y. (2017). Explorations Into the Meaning of “Conducting Sincerity” in Confucian Thought. In: Yao, X. (eds) Reconceptualizing Confucian Philosophy in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4000-9_13
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