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Philosophical concept

Junzi, exemplary person

The junzi is the exemplary person who cultivates character, speech, and conduct rather than merely seeking rank or profit.

Works
53
Passages
175
Thinkers
18
Traditions
10

Understand uses of the concept

The junzi is the exemplary person who cultivates character, speech, and conduct rather than merely seeking rank or profit.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 175 passages across 53 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Ancient testimonia on Carneades. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: 君子, superior man, homme de bien

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  3. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  4. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  5. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  6. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  7. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 20 passages
  8. Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
  9. An Essay Concerning Human UnderstandingJohn Locke · 0 passages
  10. Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 0 passages
  11. Daodejing, Book of the Way and VirtueLaozi · 0 passages
  12. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  13. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  14. The Qur’anMuhammad · 0 passages
  15. Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by LuciusMusonius Rufus · 0 passages
  16. Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the LawsPlato · 0 passages
  17. EuthydemusPlato · 0 passages
  18. Hippias MinorPlato · 0 passages
  19. LachesPlato · 0 passages
  20. LawsPlato · 0 passages
  21. LysisPlato · 0 passages
  22. MenoPlato · 0 passages
  23. Minos, a Pseudo-Platonic DialoguePlato · 0 passages
  24. RepublicPlato · 0 passages
  25. SymposiumPlato · 0 passages
  26. On BenefitsSeneca · 0 passages
  27. On ClemencySeneca · 0 passages
  28. On AngerSeneca · 0 passages
  29. On LeisureSeneca · 0 passages
  30. On ProvidenceSeneca · 0 passages