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Ren is one of the most discussed concepts in Chinese philosophy. When parsed carefully, however, we can see that throughout history, there were divergent if not contrary understandings of its definitions and contents.
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Knoblock and Riegel (2000: 559), modified.
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Queen and Major (2016: 320), modified.
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Queen and Major (2000: 316), modified.
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Queen and Major (2000: 313–314).
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Queen and Major (2000: 313).
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From “Summary of the Rules of Propriety Part 1” Record of the Rites.
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题萧欲仁大学篇后.
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A line from “Tian Bao”, Minor Odes of the Book of Poetry.
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Ewell (1990: 351), modified.
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Ewell (1990: 146–147), modified.
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Wang, Y., Bao, Q., Guan, G. (2020). Humaneness (ren, 仁). In: History of Chinese Philosophy Through Its Key Terms. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2572-8_10
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