20231027 homework

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作業 1: 朋友 Friends

• 1.1 子曰：「...有朋自遠方來，不亦樂乎？

Suggestion how to translate into English:

Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters? (James Legge) It is not delightful to have friends come from afar?

Please also read the context of this sentence. Try to find the sentence in the following website:

https://ctext.org/analects/

Student list (please write both, the modern Chinese translation and the English translation beneath your name):

范乐 Fan Yue Alicja Jacheć

Is it not great, to have friends coming from far away? 有朋从远来，不亦乐乎？

作業 2：Golden Rule

• 12.2 己所不欲，勿施於人。

"Do not do to others what you would not like done to yourself";

"a man with ren, desiring to establish himself, helps others establish themselves; desiring to succeed himself, helps others to succeed" (Analects 12.2; 6.28).

Please read the following entry on the "Golden Rule" from Confucius by Jeffrey Riegel:

"2. Confucius' Social Philosophy". Riegel, Jeffrey (Spring 2012). "Confucius". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/confucius/

Student list (please write both, the modern Chinese translation and the English translation beneath your name):

范乐 Fan Yue Alicja Jacheć

Don't do to thers what u don't want to be done to you. 不想自己做的，不做于别的人。