Why not advocate "being brave"?

Tell a story:

At that time, Confucius had a rich boy named Zi Gong, who also redeemed a slave. However, Zigong was not short of money and refused to reimburse him after returning to China. As a result, Zigong became popular overnight and became a national idol.

Only Confucius swore:

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Why? Because Zigong's behavior is too difficult to follow, for the general public:

So they can only stop at Zigong Mountain:

Later, people who redeemed slaves and demanded reimbursement from the government began to be laughed at by everyone. No one redeemed slaves after that.

So:

So Lao tze will sigh:

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Tell another story:

As a result, Lutz became famous and became the laughing stock of the whole town.

Only Confucius praised:

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Why?

The result is:

So:

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Finally, why did Luz and Zigong do a good thing, but Confucius made two different evaluations?

Because Confucius knew:

This is the greatness of Confucius:

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Let's think about why "being brave" should be "being brave". "Courage" stands for courage, which means it takes a lot of courage to do it, which means taking a lot of risks.

For example:

That's right. Maybe you can do it without fear of risks and expecting nothing in return.

But can everyone do it? If everyone can go beyond their own limitations and break through the cage of selfishness. Does the world still need laws? Will there be another prison? If you don't want to wrangle, I have to say to you on behalf of "humanity":

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Therefore, demand return is an eternal human nature and an irrefutable law. Only by seeing human nature clearly can we avoid moral traps, and only by obeying human nature can we plant kind flowers.

In a word:

Sima Qian put it well:

But too many people are ashamed to talk about "profit" and think that "profit" is bad, evil and hard to say. Even "profit" and "righteousness" are opposed.

Even Engels praised this view and was deeply inspired.

But Hegel was wrong.

I think Mozi is probably the only great philosopher who really understood this point through the ages. Mozi said:

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Yes, "righteousness" and "profit" actually refer to the same thing, and "righteousness" is just another name for "profit". As long as a little change angle, we will find:

In fact, there is no truth in this world, only interests.

Therefore, Zhouyi says:

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