Reproduction, familiarity, love, and humaneness
how did Confucius reveal "humaneness"?
pp. 21-34
in: Xinzhong Yao (ed), Reconceptualizing Confucian philosophy in the 21st century, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
"Humaneness' is a core category in Confucian philosophy. This article attempts to highlight the subtle connections among a set of concepts that are central to this philosophy, namely "reproduction" 生 (sheng), "familiarity" 親 (qin), "love" 愛 (ai), and "humaneness' 仁 (ren), and thus to investigate how Confucius appropriated "humaneness' as an exclusively Confucian term.
