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From Clan Manners to Ethical Obligation and Righteousness: A New Interpretation of the Term yi1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2007

Jinhua Jia  and
Kwok Pang-Fei
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Yi, a term denoting one of the primary concepts of Confucian ethics, has proven to be one of the most difficult terms to interpret and translate. It has been rendered as ‘righteousness’, ‘rightness’, ‘right conduct’, ‘propriety’, ‘justice’, ‘morality’, ‘duty’, ‘sense of duty’, ‘obligation’, and so forth. The aim of this article is to open new avenues to discuss the original and extended meanings of yi by the means of paleographic, archaeological, and socio-cultural studies.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 33 - 42
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2007

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Footnotes

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We would like to thank Professor Li Zehou and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions that helped to strengthen many arguments in this work.

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1 We would like to thank Professor Li Zehou and the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions that helped to strengthen many arguments in this work.