{"collection":"Confucian Documents","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_eoc_eoc06_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cfu_eoc_eoc06_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cfu_eoc_eoc06_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/eoc/eoc06.htm","summary":"THE central idea of Confucius is that every normal human being cherishes the aspiration to become a superior man\u2014superior to his fellows, if possible, but surely superior to his own past and present self. This does not more than hint at perfection as a goal; and it is said of him that one of the subjects concerning which the Master rarely spoke, was \"perfect virtue.\" (Analects, bk. ix., c.","tags":["Confucian Philosophy","Ethics of Confucius"],"text":null,"title":"The Ethics of Confucius: Chapter I. What Constitutes the ...","tradition":"Confucian Documents","translated_text":null,"word_count":11062}