Comments by Thomas Huang Most recent public comments by Thomas Huang https://nowcomment.com/users/12102 Exactly. I'm poor at translating. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=288044 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=288044 Sun, 19 Oct 2014 23:42:05 -0400 It's very literarily fun to read in chinese because the original reading has a lot of verbs that has to do with imagery relating to straight things, such as gridding, straitening, aligning straight etc. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287801 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287801 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400 Because to be a junzi you would be elite in morality, knowledge, and personal refinement, which puts you above political power and economic strength. You would be above the "aristocrats" because you are an elite in a more important, higher category. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287800 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287800 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400 The junzi, is sort of like a separate classification in itself separate from social, economic or political class. Everyone should strive to be a junzi, and its a goal for not just the wealthy and powerful but also the poor. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287799 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287799 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400 And only focus on the "external" (thin) part which is ordering your household and aligning your country. And it has never been possible to do things this way. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287798 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287798 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400 It is a metaphor that was translated literally. It is talking about how it does not make sense to not focus on the "important" (thick) part which is refining your person, balancing your mind, extending your knowledge and straightening affairs. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287797 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287797 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400 Instead of refining this person just for selfish reasons. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287796 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287796 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:51:06 -0400 Yeah in this text it is repeatedly stressed that refining people is the key to having a good solid community, and from that a ordered state, and from that world peace. So for the sake of having a ordered, peaceful world we must refine the person. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287795 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287795 Sat, 18 Oct 2014 06:51:06 -0400 I feel like that would enable more of a connection to the other parts like align their household. To align your household you must first refine your person and to refine your person you must first align your heart. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287794 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287794 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400 I find it interesting that the translator chose to use balance their minds. The literal translation is open to more interpretation being "rectify/ align straight their heart" instead of balance their minds. https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287793 https://nowcomment.com/documents/28676?scroll_to=287793 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 19:20:43 -0400