"Systematizer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accepts an inequality of men, as early Confucianism did; and that jen, love, in its practical application has to be channelled by li, the system of rules of behaviour. The li, however, always started from the idea of a stratified class society. Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the famous scholar and systematizer of Neo-Confucian thoughts, brought out rules of behaviour for those burghers who did not belong to the gentry and could not, therefore, be expected to perform all li; his "simplified li" exercized a great influence not only upon contemporary China, but also upon ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard |
