逝、陷、欺、罔｜gO, tRAP, lIE, fOOL
「君子之仁」與「婦人之仁」。
“Real benevolent” VS “Overly benevolent”.
《論語》的第六書《雍也》——第二十六章：
“The Analects”, Book 6, Chapter 26:
宰我問曰：「仁者，雖告之曰：『井有仁焉。』其從之也？」
子**曰：「何為其然也？君子可[逝₁]也，不可[陷₂]也；可[欺₃]也，不可[罔₄]也。」
Zai Wo* asked: “There is a benevolent person, if someone told him, ‘Something humane happened in the well.’ Will that benevolent person follow to go? ”
Confucius answered: “How can it be? Real man can [go to cHECK₁], but cannot [fall into the tRAP₂]; can [listen to lIES₃], but cannot [blindly be fOOLED₄].”
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* Zai Wo (Zai Yu, 522–458 BC) , a disciple of Confucius.
** Confucius (551–479 BC) was an educator, philosopher and official of Lu State in the late Eastern Zhou Dynasty (ca. 1043-256 BC) during Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC), he was the founder of Confucianism and developed his Confucian theory of the five virtue elements: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust.
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