...Wishing to regulate their families, they first rectified their own hearts. Wishing to rectify their own hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts. Wishing to be sincere in their thoughts, they extended to the utmost their knowledge. From the loving example of one family, the whole state may...

...Learning, a text of the Confucian tradition, teaches us: Wishing to order well their states, the ancients first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate...they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. 4 LEADERSHIP'S CENTER OF GRAVITY The animating soul of leadership requires living in community through...

...their persons, they first rectified their hearts. Wishing to rectify their hearts, they first sought to be sincere in their thoughts, they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.2 What we have then, in Confucianism,...

...ancients, who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the kingdom, first ordered well their States. Wishing to order well their States, they first...they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things". "Things being investigated, knowledge...

...throughout the kingdom, They first put their own states in order. Wishing to put their own states in order, They first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate...They first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lays investigation of things. Things being investigated, knowledge became...

...illustrious virtue throughout the world, first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order well their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing...they first extended to the utmost their knowledge. Such extension of knowledge lay in the investigation of things.2 with the self, the Neo-Confucian worldview...