Confucius: The Great Learning Year: ca. 500 BCE

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Confucius: The Great Learning
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844254.book-part-002

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Abstract

What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. The point where to rest being known, the object of pursuit is then determined; and, that being determined, a calm unperturbedness may be attained to. To that calmness there will succeed a tranquil repose. In that repose there may be careful deliberation, and that deliberation will be followed by the attainment of the desired end.

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