Talk:Ren (philosophy)

Cleanup
This article does not include characters, which is an issue because using romanizations only is extremely ambiguous; I was unable to determine the correct characters. Also, the section titled "The Golden Rule" includes links to several irrelevant pages (eg. dead link hsin and irrelevant link to ching), and I was unable to find the correct pages. Luolimao (talk) 17:55, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

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The Golden Rule
Speculation about Confucius' choice of word, and his own words of defining it by Ai, as love of others has led to the belief that rén is the Confucian route to the "Golden Rule".

Moreover, Confucius was concerned with peoples' individual development, which he maintained took place within the context of human relationships. Ritual and filial piety are the ways in which one should act toward others from an underlying attitude of humaneness. Confucius' concept of humaneness, rén, is probably best expressed in the Confucian version of the Ethic of Reciprocity: What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.

Confucius' Golden Rule of Being entails doing things for others that you would want them to do to you in return, as well as not doing things to others that you would not want to experience in return. Hence, it expands the Golden Rule into a positive prescription of actions as well as a negative proscription.

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Crude attempt to force core Chinese culture into Abrahamic tradition which violates several established policies. 72.228.177.92 (talk) 09:31, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't get what you're saying about Abrahamic tradition. The Golden Rule is evidenced in all kinds of cultural traditions; just see the Wikipedia article on it. So this paragraph could probably go back if it gets sourced. —pfahlstrom (talk) 23:03, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Recent edit
While copyediting and tracking down references, I looked into "The Boston Society of Confucius" and its journal "Archives of the Boston Society of Confucius". That journal appears to have had a single issue, in 2019. All of the articles in that issue are by Gang Xu. The website of The Boston Society of Confucius is also Gang Xu's personal website on which he posts multi-part descriptions of his divorce trial and other legal difficulties that at first glance strike me as being in the unhinged genre. I think under SPS this stuff will have to go for now. —Moorlock (talk) 23:59, 15 September 2023 (UTC)