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    The superior man does not base his activities on ancient ... — Carmelics
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    The superior man does not base his activities on ancient institutions

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    • 1.Ancient institutions were meant to govern the ancient world
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    • 2.Ancient institutions cannot be followed today because the world has changed
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    • 1.Ancient institutions encode accumulated moral wisdom that individual reason alone cannot replicate, as Burke and Confucius both argued.
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    • 2.The superior man's virtue is itself constituted by ritual propriety (li) inherited from ancient Zhou institutions, not invented anew.
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    • 1.Xunzi held that the sage-kings' rites and norms remain authoritative precisely because human nature is constant across historical change.
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    • 2.If ancient institutions lose authority merely because circumstances change, moral standards become contingent on history, undermining virtue's universality.
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    As to setting up schemes or arranging for details, neither the Book of History nor Confucius said anything about them…. Because the ancient institutions were meant to govern the ancient world and cannot be followed today, the superior man does not base his activities on them, and because what is suitable today can govern the world of today but will not necessarily for the future, the superior man does not hand it down to posterity as a model. (quoted in Chan 1963: 701)
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