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Stephen McIntyre
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So here they are in all their glory, Chinese and other classics I've added over the years. Yes, it's small, but does its size really matter? Really?
Hume's Treatise is a work in progress. I intend on overhauling a couple of the other books, too, as time permits. Enjoy!
Chinese Classics:
The Analects of Confucius
The Great Learning of Confucius
The Doctrine of the Mean of Tsze-sze
The Works of Mencius
The Writings of Chuang Tzu
The Tâo Te Ching
Others:
Kahlil Gibran's The Forerunner
Kahlil Gibran's The Madman
Thomas Jefferson's Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
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Chapter 23.
The way of man;-- the development of perfect sincerity in those not naturally possessed of it.
Next to the above is he who cultivates to the utmost the shoots of goodness in him. From those he can attain to the possession of sincerity. This sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform.
Chapter 24.
That entire sincerity can foreknow.
It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens. Such events are seen in the milfoil and tortoise, and affect the movements of the four limbs. When calamity or happiness is about to come, the good shall certainly be foreknown by him, and the evil also. Therefore the individual possessed of the most complete sincerity is like a spirit.
Chapter 25.
How from sincerity comes self-completion, and the completion of others and of things.
1. Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself.
2. Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing. On this account, the superior man regards the attainment of sincerity as the most excellent thing.
3. The possessor of sincerity does not merely accomplish the self-completion of himself. With this quality he completes other men and things also. The completing himself shows his perfect virtue. The completing other men and things shows his knowledge. But these are virtues belonging to the nature, and this is the way by which a union is effected of the external and internal. Therefore, whenever he -- the entirely sincere man -- employs them,-- that is, these virtues,-- their action will be right.
