responsibility

The Error of Concealment: Confucius on the Sin of Silence

The Keeper’s Fault: Confucius on the Inescapable Logic of Accountability

The Useless Assistant: Confucius’s Parable of the Guide Who Doesn’t Guide

The Great Divergence: Confucius on the Inner-Directed vs. Outer-Directed Life

A Scathing Rebuke: “Unruly in Youth, Fruitless in Prime, a Pest in Old Age”

The Unwavering Duty: “Having Served as an Official, I Dare Not Fail to Report”

The True Meaning of Love: “To Love, Can One Avoid Imposing Toil?”

The True Scholar: “He Who Cherishes Comfort Is Unfit to Be a Scholar”

A Grave Warning: To Use the Uninstructed in War Is to Abandon Them

The Weight of Office: “To Be a Prince is Difficult; To Be a Minister is Not Easy”

The Unemployed Sage: “If It Were State Affairs, I Would Have Heard”

The Unrecallable Word: “Four Horses Cannot Overtake the Tongue”

A Father’s Love, A Master’s Restraint: “The Fault is Not Mine”

The Unclaimed Friend: “Leave the Burial to Me”

The Scholar’s Charge: To Bear the Weight of Humanity Until Death