“Ren is benevolence isn’t it? Yi is righteousness, Li is ritual or order. Zhi is wisdom and Xin is faithfulness.” Rawling counts them off on his fingers as he recites, “Without Li, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”
This whole notion of what makes us truly human is an ongoing question, probably as old as humanity. What does, in fact, distinguish us from other animals? And should we in fact think of ourselves as better? When I was a kid, I often wondered what animals thought of us. Cats, for example, might decide that humans are really just here to serve them (“they feed me when I meow, open the door for me, pat my head when I climb on the table…”)
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