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When I hear biased speech, I can tell what has obscured the man’s understanding. When I hear excessive speech, I can tell what trap the man has fallen into. When I hear deviant speech, I can tell where the man has strayed. When I hear evasive speech, I can tell at what point the man has exhausted his reasons. When these defects are born in the mind they bring harm to self-governance, and when proclaimed as policies of state, they bring harm to its affairs. If a sage were to arise again, he would surely affirm what I say
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This follows that allegory which argues against thinkpieces that inspire DOGE. That said, exhausting reason may not always be a bad (a more biased word for "negative") thing?
i had always wondered about that!> The name Mencius, like the name Confucius, is a Latinized version of a Chinese name. > Mencius’s real name was Meng Ke 孟軻. (He is referred to by this name only once in the > Mencius, in 1B.16.) Mencius’s disciples referred to him as “Master Meng,” which in Chinese was “Mengzi,” turned into “Mencius” by European interpreters of Chinese culture two thousand years after his death.this book looks super interesting and well written, i think i may be my new daily read
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