I Chin., roughly honesty, uprightness, duty; a concept in.
I Chin., lit. “change, transformation” I-ching Confucianist philosophy. To act in accordance with i means to respond to the de mands of a situation from a sense of moral obligation and without any thought of gain (li). I and li are total opposites. Uprightness is one of the five cardinal virtues of Confucianism (wu-ch’ang, K’ung-tzu).
The Analects (Lun-yü) of Confucius state (4.16), “A noble man understands what is moral; a small man understands what is profitable.”
Source: The Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and Religion: Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen. Shambhala Publications, Inc.
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