How To Be A Gentleman - Confucius (Confucianism)
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Confucius - How To Be A Gentleman (Confucianism)
In this video, we will be talking about how to be a gentleman from the teachings of Confucius. Junzi is a Chinese philosophical term often translated as "gentleman" or "superior person”. Confucius employed this term in his works to describe the ideal man. Confucius taught a philosophy rich in benevolence and good behavior, employing an ideal archetype in which moral qualities could be symbolized. Confucius states that there are five virtues that make up a true gentleman. According to him, an individual who can practice all five of them can be considered a superior man, a portrayer of true manhood or put simply... a gentleman.
So here are 5 virtues of a true gentleman -
1. The Virtue of Ren
2. The Virtue of Li
3. The Virtue of Xin
4. The Virtue of Zhi
5. The Virtue of Yi
Hope you enjoyed this video and find these insights helpful.Confucianism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China. It is described as tradition, a philosophy, a religion, a humanistic or rationalistic religion, a way of governing, or simply a way of life. It was founded by China’s most iconic historical figures, Confucius.
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Confucius says “A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
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very true. action speak louder than talk.
When the Family is united and orderly, society flourishes. Its breakdown leads to chaos and every man for himself attitude.
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Who go to sleep with Itchy butt, wakes up with stinky fingers
facts but the man needs too make his money for providing the info
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Very wise, mmm, yes
That moment you've realised that you have become the gentleman you admired as a child...
Great video. I'm very impressed by this aspect of Chinese culture.
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it's NOT chinese wisdom, it's totally asain culture
@@HeyungWonKang Yes, totally Asian brought by the Chinese. Korean friend
The art of moral conduct
Of the chief virtues in Stoicism, I always thought wisdom was the most important as the other 3 would be difficult or even impossible to practise without it.
The word wisdom is not always a positive term in Confucian thinking. It is more aligned with one’s ability to defend oneself; as opposed to compassion which is one’s ability to defend my loved ones from “me” and my own inadequacies. When you establish that one is wise, you’d have to next establish if they are compassionate as well.
I not only enjoyed but I LOVED this I've never even heard of confusious
I was some how already doing this because it was what I knew what right. THEN DAMN this video hit me in the face like an amazing brick or tin of brick but those bricks were soft and fluffy and also comforting!
SO THANKYOU AND THIS IS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
BUT IM NOW APPLYING THIS NOW THAT IM NOT COMPLETELY IN THIS ALONE.
Most impressive ! Love eastern teachings
Thanks for this video.
That explains why people are having a fine time whenever I'm present.
I can consider myself as a gentleman now
Everyone need to watch this.
Great video. Thank you! I learned a lot.
It was really very good presentation.
Good work. Much appreciated.
Thank you very much!
Loving the vid
Thank You
Very well done. An excellent classroom video for introducing students to the Way of Confucius.
Laozi and Zhuangzi had some issues with Confucius and his disciples.
"When the Tao is lost, there is goodness."
Yes, they bombarded Confucius often because of his unnaturalness.
@@fraidoonw Which is logical, as Taoism is focussed on nature and its laws and Confucianism is focussed on society and its rules. Man can't make true laws, only rules.
@@TimMer1981 thanks yes you're right!
I agree with "Li". Traditions tend to help people bond.
The pronunciation and romanization of the Chinese terminology is somewhat inconsistent, but still a nice summarizing video!
Below is a list of the major concepts discussed with the Chinese Characters, pinyin, and time stamps
君子 (jūnzǐ): Gentleman (0:01)
仁 (rén): Benevolence (2:44)
禮 (lǐ ): Ritual/Etiquette/Propriety (5:36)
五倫 (wǔ lún): Five Constant Relationships (6:26)
孝 (xiào): Filial Piety (8:06)
中庸 (zhōng yōng): Doctrine of the Mean (9:34)
信 (xìn): Honesty (10:46)
智 (zhì): Wisdom (13:07)
義 (yì): Righteousness/Justice (16:16)
Great insight
Great vid
Wow, this is one of the best youtube videos I have seen...
One of the best Life Improving video 😘😘😘
well said
Great 👍
thanks! a very useful talk! suggestion: would you please put the original Chinese Characters beside the English ones? i.g. Li 禮. thanks!
Did you notice that
Nobody is perfect!!
Not a social rank either. Any man can be a gentleman
No. That's wrong. No one is perfect but some people will be much better than others. Only a few men are true gentlemen, not every man is.
Li corresponds to etiquette, ceremony, protocol. I didn’t see that.
Latest culture. I love good gentleman and a good woman in life and may everything be there in the first place
Gloria in Excelsis Deo!
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very nice information that I like ! What is the meaning of Confucius ? Please let me know , thank you . I think that , the gentleman is a person who has the peace , happiness , loving kindness , compassion , wisdom , loyalty , and understanding in his mind .
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I claim and attract a perfect gentleman husband into my life right now. Amen.
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These key concepts are articulated in 礼记 or the Book of Rites especially the section 内则 which lay out the etiquette and manners within the family. 😀😀
The family one is all good and well on paper, however. My birthgivers were very abusive/neglectful.
Perhaps I'll shift that over to community. Since community and whatnot are what raised me, kept me safe and showed me love.
If you cannot found a good man, become one.
Question about #2, “proper conduct in society”-
What about if one is in a society where a despotic foreign entity has taken over the government, and the society is mentally ill, following propaganda and living in fear? What is “proper” in this situation?
True
Fu@$ 000 men r men.
Don't f#@! ( with the past....
Haha I disappoint my mom my entire life but the last two years been busting ass too graduate college just so I can make her smile once. Only at 22 im 24 now did I realize just how much I am too handle and she managed too do that for 22 years. She still doesn't like me but dont mistake that as she doesn't love me and I completely understand why and am just touched that she still loves me.
Lao Tze : Yeah, Okay...
Isn't it pronounced Xiao? I'm watching this for a class and they also misspelled the term, calling it xio, and I had the hardest time looking it up to define it.
"Confucius says..."
Even the predictive text knows it. 😏
Eastern philosophy teaching the goodness of the female attitude. Western teaching the goodness of a men attitude. The female attitude is fond to compassion. The men attitude is fond to righteousness
3:57 I read that as “virtue of p*n*s naturally present in everyone”
16:28 E A SPORTS TO THE GAMES
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君 (Jun) 子 (zi) --> 君子 = gentleman; a man prudence
Though there are many good concepts to take from Confucian philosophy, ultimately because of the hierarchy system it promulgates, it leads in practice to distrust or lack of care outside of that unit. Family more important than the city and the country more important than the world. 仁 ren is superseded in the case of the "child in the well" because it is not your child it is that child's family is responsible for it. Cheating a stranger is acceptable because they are not from your city. Mozi, with his concept of universal love, jian ai 兼爱, says we owe everyone 仁 no matter what group we belong to.
You are not making any sense...
He says you should especially care for those in your family, but it doesn't mean he is saying you shouldn't do the same for others. Confucius says in the Analects, "Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself". This means that since you do not want others to simply ignore your child falling into the well (in your example), you also should not ignore another child not of your family falling in. This is also why your example about cheating others is incorrect.
Confucius definitely meant these virtues for men only.
Doesn’t mean that he was right in making the distinction.
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the glory of G-d is in the East-- Confucious was a strict monotheist and believed in Shang-Di the supreme One Ruler of the Universe which was quite unique at the time; also predicted via astronomical calculations was the birth of the Messiah
"Of course these lessons apply to all people equally, not just men."
You say, but is that what Confucius thought? Under Confuciun Choseon women were not allowed to read and slavery was enforced even when economically unviable bc rigid societal stratification was necessary in an ideal Confuciun society.
Could you cite where you found this information? What you said seems very contradicting to Confucius way of teaching.
@@yumpatMEOW , you'll find the story in any book on Korean history.
@@jwhippet8313 Um I'm pretty sure Confucius was Chinese and how Korea decided to take his influence and morph it into whatever was more fitting for the culture and society at that time has nothinig to do with Confucius himself lol.
@@jwhippet8313 . That is false. He believed in roles of wife and husband, but he taught that both were equals that each had strengths and weaknesses and that's why they needed each other. Most cultures, especially of the times, saw women as inferior to men and that's not what Confucius believed. He also absolutely didn't believe in slavery because he believed that justice and kindness should be given to all. He sought for a harmonious relationship between government and subjects. That all were as a loving family. So he very much was against slavery
@@Deadsea_1993 , where are you getting this from? Confucius regarded women as equal to slaves and promoted slavery, even complaining that the Zhou dynasty slave rites should be re-established. Those rites involved killing or burying slaves alive when their more important masters died.
CZcams doesn't let me lost links, but Google Confucius and Slavery and you'll be given dozens of Chinese scholars' articles on Confucius as the champion of slave owners.
Confucius' main belief was that you should be the absolute best example of whatever you were in the hierarchy and not try to adjust your place, and to keep doing that even if others failed in their duties. So the slave should work hard and honor his master even if the master abused him. That's virtuous. Trying to escape is not virtuous.
7:21 In the US, government are not leaders but representatives. The citizens are not subjects but are the power.
Lie.. that has been taught to us all so that we believe that we aren't totally powerless..
You honestly believe the citizens have the power in the USA?
Thanks for this video. It was very wise indeed. I think it would be very interesting to combine marxism with Confucian philosophy.
"my balls hurt" - Confucius
You are what you think
I am from Taiwan, so I can deeply comprehend what you are teaching about the Ideas of Confucius. I keep reading and learning from the Four Books collected by his students while Confucius was alive. It is really true saying from Confucius. Not like the other religions which focus only on Buddha or God separated from the real life. Confucius says "If you can't do what humans must do to duty, you have no duty for the heaven." No qualification for heaven.
The golden rule. How does it work for the masochist? : )
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They played this at the reeducation camp ,and we were tested on it ,ifwe failed test , they
Too many commercials plus the long infomercial imbeded as part of the video
A CZcamsrs gotta eat
Not “Xao” but “Xiao” is the more common latinization of the virtue of propriety.
Ok here you go . Noah’s training
A powerful Man or the powerful one
How is Junzi different from alpha male?
filial piety is xiao and not xao
Confucius says " A man who stands on toilet, is high on pot"
I am confused..???🤔
i don't think there are many that would run to help a child. they would run to wait though
Which software did you use to edit this video ??
Whiteboard Software
Kant believed that humans have a "good will" which sounds somewhat similar to the concept of "ren."
It is moral law
I think that there is very little goodness on humanity. Sadly. Like Schopenhauer said, the fools audience is always busyest.
50 looooool
Sorry, too long commercial
yes i agree
Learning to be a gentleman by the virtue of imitation.
Superior man is a person who is a grown-up
A small man is a 3 year old
Li is "manners"
Way too many adverts. 4 of them and a long produft placement. This is not being a gentleman...
Oh that third way too gain wisdom really hit home after challenging people who were clearly superior intellectually getting smacked too the curb then debating if the little bit of information you gained was worth the mental ass whooping I am glad I dont do that anymore
“He says gentle”man” but he’s just a victim of his time.”
Either that or he is wise enough to know why God historically has a problem with civilisations that pretend men and women are equal and had a penchant for burning them to the ground. I guess we’ll see for ourselves too.
Indeed. Confucius explicitly supported that men should be the leaders of a society. Women needed to be structured into their important roles or social and cultural collapse will occur. This is clearly seen in Western countries today.
There is no "god". Grow up.
@@bunchberry_ no you are right there is not, I merely use God as the label for the force of nature that causes actions to have consequences.
That’s why the most prosperous societies in the world have gender inequality, right ?
@@hellohuman6993 that is a very vague statement. The answer is yes, but I think it might be important to know what sort of gender inequality you meant, because the answer may mean something different to you than it does to me.
So Confucius stressed trickle-up morality?
I would say it's not just trickle-up or trickle-down but a dialectical (two-way) relationship. The rulers being virtuous is just as important as the masses, if either side goes astray it can lead to instability and chaos. Confucius said, "If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame. If they be led by virtue, and uniformity sought to be given them by the rules of propriety, they will have the sense of the shame, and moreover will become good." It is important to lead by example from the top just as much as it is to cultivate virtue in the home from the bottom.
孝 xiào filial piety or obedience not xao
Llttle difficult to understand
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No actually being a gentleman is exclusive to the male of the species... just as being ladylike is exclusive to females. Yes it’s true any sex can exhibit qualities of all shade till the cows come home... but a gentleman is a gentleman and a lady a lady...
Hahaha
No! Shem cannot be to treat others like we with to be treated ourselves. This is a selfish way very narcissistic to assume everyone should define good and bad like ourselves. No! We all have different needs, ideas, opinions and perception of Reality is relative to each and only one of us. Don't fool yourself pretending that you know what makes others happy without checking with them first.
1:14 - political corectness
It should be XIAO NOT XAO
Woman just follow what they see as the example set by men
Except for sociopaths & psychopaths🔱🙉🙈🙊🌈
Consider sending this to the BLM people.
Such folly to assume Confucius was a victim of his time. You are.
We just ask that you be a gentleman when you tear down a Confederate statue don't be up for an animal we don't need animals in this world just let you know if you just say we are all people with my old people there for everyone
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why, this was good vid
This type of automatic, superficial belief and trust in precepts propounded by "sages" and "experts" give rise to blind obedience to authority--no critical thinking. Example: why do so many have poor relationships with their parents? Why automatically assume the child is at fault and the parent the virtuous one because he/she is the "authority"? A slippery slope to walk down if you don't question or at least investigate dogma.
HHHahahahahaha...did you just say, the Government take good care of their people...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA,, ttthhe government....hahaahahaHAHAHAHAHA hahaha suppose next you gonna say, religions are true and real........HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Nowadays gentleman becomes ungentle-man because of its loss of moral values.
The west has a horrible family unit which encourages people to leave their parents behind to pursue individualistic pleasures and they also have a horrible moral system centered around belief that you have to arbitrarily follow a list of divine commandments or else a deity will smite you. Confucius makes it clear that you cannot frighten people to be good or else they will require constant control because they will never learn _why_ they should be good and will never control themselves. Kindness, empathy, benevolence, etc, don't come from divine commandments but are part of all of us, and in order to cultivate 仁 it has to start with upbringing, with the family, but western families don't do this, and usually if they do try to enforce values it's through punishment only.
@@bunchberry_ , you are absolutely correct in all you say. I am Spiritual rather than religious. I left christianity years ago once I learnt that it's man-made doctrine designed to control the masses....
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