 | 1914 - 640 דפים
...doctrine of the ancients, would have acted with a view to eating and drinking. CHAPTKE XXVI. 1 • Mencius said, "There are three things which are unfilial,...doing so was the same as if he had informed them." CHAPTER XXVII. !• Mencius said, "The richest fruit of benevolence is this, — the service of one's... | |
 | Confucius - 1915 - 356 דפים
...clever saying of Mencius, which likewise embodies an ethical principle much insisted upon in China: "There are three things which are unfilial and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." (Bk. iv., pt. i., c. xxvi., v. I.) A Even in filial piety, more is not required of any man than he... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 454 דפים
...to eating and drinking." CHAPTER XXVI 1. Mencius said, " There are three things which are \mfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them....doing so was the same as if he had informed them." CHAPTER XXVII 1. Mencius said, " The richest fruit of benevolence is this — the service of one's... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 608 דפים
...departed "dead. According to Confucius no crime is greater than filial impiety ; and Mencius said that " there are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." Consequently there can be no greater crime that a man can commit than to remain single. And if his... | |
 | Edward Westermarck - 1922 - 608 דפים
...departed dead. According to Confucius no crime is greater than filial impiety ; and Mencius said that " there are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." Consequently there can be no greater crime that a man can commit than to remain single. And if his... | |
 | Elias Hershey Sneath - 1927 - 388 דפים
...of filiality very strongly insisted upon is thus expressed by Mencius. "There are three things that are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them."" He is speaking from the point of view of the Superior Man, for whom this and the other two unfilial... | |
 | 1911 - 980 דפים
...fathers will wander forlorn in the spirit world, "begging rice" of other spirits. Hence Mencius taught "there are three things which are unfilial ; and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." It is a man's first concern, therefore, to assure the succession in the male line. He not only wants... | |
 | Youlan Feng - 1983 - 498 דפים
...will still lack filial piety. Mencius meant exactly this when he said : " There are three things that are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them." For if a man has no posterity, the family line (or at least his branch of it), which has been handed... | |
 | Arvind Sharma, Birks Professor of Comparative Religion Arvind Sharma - 1987 - 326 דפים
...to pass on that life to the next generation. Not to do so was a serious offense. As the philosopher Mencius said, "There are three things which are unfilial,...and to have no posterity is the greatest of them" (Mencius 4A:26, Legge 1 966, 725). As we shall see, this sense of the primacy of marriage and the sacredness... | |
 | Arvind Sharma - 1994 - 476 דפים
...spirits would be doomed to pathetic existences as hungry ghosts. According to Confucian tradition, "There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them" (Mencius 4A:26; Legge 1966, 725). In a patrilineal system posterity, of course, means male descendants.... | |
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There are three things which are unfilial, and to have no posterity is the greatest of them. 
