Rationalism (理学), Heart Study (心学)

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= 格物致知 =
+    Comprehension Comes Understanding

    理不辨不明.
+    Reason cannot be discerned without discerning.
    物不格不知.
+    Things without comprehension wouldn't be known.

    博学. 审问. 慎思. 明辨. 笃行.
+    Vast knowledge. Meticulous review. Careful thoughts. Clear discernment. Perseverant practice.
    知行合一.
+    Practice knowledge unified.

    学而不思则罔.
+    Learning without thinking is vain.
    思而不学则殆.
+    Thinking without learning is peril.


    无善无恶心之体: 有善有恶意之动.
+    No kind no evil the body of heart: Of kind of evil the move of will.
    知善知恶是良知: 为善为恶皆格物.
+    Know kind know evil be the conscience: Be kind be evil both the Comprehension.

    固知多行不义必自毙: 然善, 未必得善终.
+    Definitely know frequently practicing dishonorable must self trap: But kind, does not necessarily end in kindness.

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    何为善恶?
+    What are kind evil?
    善故善乎? 恶故恶?
+    Kind are necessarily kind? Evil are evil?

    That cannot be proved: what difference does it make from mere baseless assertions?
+    既无可证: 何异于妄论?
+    As no way to prove: how different from baseless assertions?

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    何以知其然? 无见其不然.
+    How to know it's true? Haven't seen it's not.
    然其孰然? 无以知其然.
+    However it is true? No way to tell if it is.

    When their existence made too little difference: they exist or not is made of little importance.
+    其然无异: 其实无异.
+    Whose truthness no difference: Whose result no difference.

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    Justice, itself is sort of prejudice.
    Just or not, is far beyond what's on the facade only.

    Crime so flagrant, that no court could possibly judge: goes unanswered.

    Both enforcers and legislators at the same time, meanwhile breaking laws meanwhile fixing laws on need.

    不法法: 则事无常.
+    Not ordered by laws: then things inconsistent.
    事本无常: 何以法?
+    Things by nature inconsistent: How to order?

    Une loi de terreur, et des juges d'enfer.
+    A law of terror, and the judges of Hell.
    Dans ce sénat sanglant, les tribuns ont leur voix.
+    In this bloody senate, the tribunes have their voice.

    Tout dans la création, n'est pas humainement beau.
+    All inside the creation, are not entirely humanly beautiful.
    Sens que le laid y existe à côté du beau:
+    Sense that the ugly there exist aside of the beauty:
    Le difforme près du gracieux, le grotesque au revers du sublime.
+    The deformed preceded of the gracious, the disgusted on reverse of the sublime.
    Le mal avec le bien. L'ombre avec la lumière.
+    The mal with the benign. The sombre with the luminated.

    知美之恶, 知恶之美: 然后能知美恶.
+    Realizing the beauty of ugly, the ugly of beauty: then could realize beauty ugly.

    天下无粹白之狐, 而有粹白之裘: 取之众白也.
+    The world has no fox pure white, but of furs pure white: taken from the various whites.

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    同则来: 异则去.
+    Same then comes: Depart then different.
    情人如是. 君臣如是.
+    Lovers alike. Sovereigns Officers alike.

    君君臣臣: 各安其序.
+    Sovereign Sovereign Officer Officer: Each resting the Order.
    君君故臣臣.
+    Sovereign Sovereign thus Officer Officer.
    君不君: 臣不臣. 父子类如是.
+    Sovereign unlike Sovereign: Officer unlike Officer. Parent-child mostly alike.

    六亲不和: 安又孝兹?
+    6 affinities unharmonic: How again pious at?
    国家昏乱: 安有贞臣?
+    State bemuddled chaotic: How of faithful Officers?

    君虽尊, 以白为黑: 臣不能听.
+    Sovereign though Supreme, taking white as black: Officer shall not hear.
    父虽亲, 以黑为白: 子不能从.
+    Parent though affinitive, taking black as white: Child shall not follow.


    醒时相交欢: 醉后各分散.
+    Sober times each acquainting joyous: Drunk after each there depart.
    永结无情游: 相期邈云汉.
+    Forever binding the tour emotionless: Each expecting immense cloudy abroad.

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    天人感应: 怪力乱神.
+    Heaven-human sensationalism: Bizarre power disorderly gods.
    装神弄鬼: 三纲五常.
+    Feigned gods playing demons: 3 Baseis 5 Conventions.
    神道设教: 假托圣名.
+    Divine path setup tutoring: Falsely rent Enlightened names.

    君臣有义. 父子有亲. 夫妇有别.
+    Sovereign-Officer of honor. Parent-child of affinity. Husband-wife of each other.
    本就非从属.
+    Originally not of subordination.

    有义是故君臣.
+    Of honor thus Sovereign-Officer.
    有亲是故父子.
+    Of affinity thus parent-child.
    相惜是故夫妇.
+    Each cherishing thus husband-wife.

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    己所不欲: 勿施于人.
+    What self wished not: Inflict not upon others.
    己之所好: 亦勿覆施.
+    What favored by self: Inflict not upon neither.

    己或以圣人之行为准则.
+    Self may take the Enlightened's practice as guideline.
    可勒令天下俱效耶?
+    May forcibly order the whole world to all follow?
    此昏君不恤民难也.
+    Such the bemuddled Sovereign inconsiderate of the people's difficulty.

    非人欲者, 伪君子也.
+    Dishonoring the people's wills, be hypocrites.

    仁义道德挂嘴边: 浩然正气势凌人.
+    Benevolence Honor Correctness Virtue hung at mouth: Boldly correct of rectitude stance so astounding.
    冤假错案积如山: 贪赃枉法不曾少.
+    Falsehood misjudged cases piled mountain-like: Avarice embezzling misjustice never ever reduced.
    草芥人命实有理: 沽名钓誉真君子.
+    Grass-treating people's lives truly of Reason: Bragging fame seeking prominence the True Dignitary.

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    “伏想行春小队: 问花寻柳于风轻云淡之时.
+    Low reminding the Spring Tour squad: Searching flowers seeking willows at the windy light cloudy faint moment.
    退而以文章斧斤尽发 朱 夫子 未启之扃钥.”
+    Returned and had articles axe thoroughly exhibit Master Zhū's unfinished key-doors.

    Hugged beauty at hug, meanwhile making "Save Heavenly Justice, Perish Humanly Wills" so on:
+    手揽美人入怀, 边作 "存天理, 灭人欲" 云云:
    Kissing the beauty meanwhile denouncing which..?
+    亲吻之而非议之..?

    我若领夫子一游 Louvre: 不知何感想?
+    If I led the Master a tour of Louvre: Know not what afterthoughts?


    褒衣长袖高帽: 大言说教滔滔.
+    Boasting suit long sleeves high hat: Big words tutoring endlessly.
    存天理, 灭人欲: 之言不行奈何?
+    Save Heavenly Justice, Perish Humanly Wills: such words inapplicable so how?

    Blindly following without consideration becomes dogmatism.
+    盲从不思为罔.
    Beliefs are not to be thoughtlessly applied.
+    是理非无顾而行.

    此亦 阳明 "格竹" 之非.
+    Such is also 阳明's "Comprehending Bamboos" 's fallaciousness.

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    越名教, 任自然.
+    Transcend Noble Tutoring, Let Naturally Will.

    我所行, 皆我本心所好.
+    My practice, all my original heart so favored.
    苟或与众利同.
+    Though possibly with the general public's.
    然亦我心己利.
+    However still my own heart own interests.

    是义未必非利.
+    Such honor not necessarily non-interests.
    是利未必非义.
+    Such interests not necessarily non-honor.
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    不类 孟 子 言.
+    Unlike Master Mèng said.

    纵:
+    Though:
    “为天地立心. 为生民立命.
+    For Sky-Earth establishing heart. For living people stood fate.
    为往圣继绝学. 为万世开太平.”
+    For past Enlightened continuing extraordinary study. For all generations creating eternal peace.
    ; 本亦一己之妄念.
+    origin also be one's own whims.

    心无是非利害: 随性而已.
+    Heart without right wrong gain loss: mere with the will.
    从心所欲: 不论逾矩.
+    Follow the heart so will: without minding transgression.

    四方上下曰宇: 往古来今曰宙.
+    4 directions up-down be space: From past comes present be immensity.
    宇宙是我心: 我心即宇宙.
+    The universe be my heart: My heart is the universe.

    不求一时贵: 不期千载知.
+    Seek not once of nobility: Expect not thousands years' recognition.
    殽然世事纷: 但求我开心.
+    Messy the worldly affairs disturbant: Wish only my heart of happiness.

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    Fade whose pride, concede whose whims: alike shall benefit toward whose Excellency.
+    去其骄, 蕴其意: 是应益于子身.
    良贾深藏若虚. 君子盛德容貌若愚.
+    Good merchants deep-contained as if depleted. Dignitaries of extraordinary virtue appeared as if foolish.

    兵者诡道.
+    Military of ruses.
    能而示之不能: 不能而示之能.
+    Capable while showing which as incapable: Incapable while shown as capable.
    卑以骄之: 实而备之. 乱而取之.
+    Humble to pride which: Condense and prepare which. Disorder and take which.
    攻其无备: 出其不意.
+    Attack on whose unprepared: Out of whose unintended.
    此兵家之至胜道.
+    This is the Military's absolute path of victory.

    兵, 利也: 非好也.
+    Military, be interests: not the hobby.
    兵, 慎也: 非戏也.
+    Military, be caution: not the play.