Confucius · Philosophy

The Junzi: The Exemplary Person

Confucius’s ideal of the <em>junzi</em> - the cultivated, exemplary person of virtue and integrity - and his vision of the moral self-cultivation through which anyone may become noble in character.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that the junzi is Confucius’s ideal of the cultivated, exemplary person of virtue, achieved through moral self-cultivation. Explain the ideal of the junzi and how one becomes one, in your own words.

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