concept

Jūnzǐ

Beliefs & concepts

The noble person as Confucian moral exemplar-concept. Not ren as humaneness alone, and not saint as Christian holy-person alone.

Also known as Junzi · Noble person

Chinese tradition

  • Jūnzǐ appears in Chinese tradition.

    Wilhelm’s Yijing repeatedly seats the superior man / noble person (junzi) as the counsel-addressee of judgments and images. A named junzi in that classic’s moral grammar, not ren as the humaneness twin already walked and not saint as a Christian holy-person dump.

    from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • I Ching (Yijing) · Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation)

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, trans. Richard Wilhelm, English Cary F. Baynes.