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):

柯欣怡 Ke Xinyi Weronika Krzysztofa Kata

有朋友从很远的地方来的，是不是非常好的情况？ Is it not great to have friends that come from places that are far away?

皮娜莉 Natalia Piasecka

Is it not wonderful, when you have friends coming from distant places? 有朋友从远的地方来，是不是很精彩的？

高志尚 Gao Zhishang Marcin Paszek

和從遠方來的人做朋友，是不是生活中精彩樂趣之一？ Forming a friendship with people coming from afar is one of life’s wonderful delights, is it not?

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？

張一菲 Zhang Yifei Agnieszka Żmidzińska

有从远的地方来的朋友，不是愉快吗？ Isn't it good to have friends coming from far away ?

朱清月 Zhu Qingyue Julia Czuban

A visit by a friend from afar is truly a delight. 有朋友从很远的地方来的，是不是个乐趣的事儿？

宋天源 Antoni Semmler

有来自很远的地方的好友是否乐趣的？ // Isn’t it so adorable, the fact of having friends from distant places?

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):

柯欣怡 Ke Xinyi Weronika Krzysztofa Kata

什么是对你来说不好的，不做于别的人。 Don’t do something that you wouldn’t like other people to do to you.

皮娜莉 Natalia Piasecka

Do not do to others what you personally would not like. 什么你自己不喜欢，不做于其他人。

高志尚 Gao Zhishang Marcin Paszek

不要對他人做自己不要他人對你做的事 Thou shall not inflict upon others what thou not want inflicted upon thee.

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。

張一菲 Zhang Yifei Agnieszka Żmidzińska

别做别人你不想对自己做的事。Don't do to other people what you don't want them to do to you.

朱清月 Zhu Qingyue Julia Czuban

What you don't want done to you, don't do to others. 你不想向你做的事，别向别人做的。