英文摘要
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With the affirmation that "passions" is the nature of man; however, if the passions are not expressed appropriately, they can also be harmful to man as well. How to express passions appropriately is an issue worthy of discussion. This essay begins with the discussion and the analysis on why a person can be disturbed and hurt by passions when expressing them. Firstly, the essay is to clarify the word root of "passion", including the relations among nature, passion, and desire as well as the principle of expressing passions by enumerating "what one dislikes/惡" and "refraining from doing it unto others/毋" as examples. Secondly, the essay is to talk about "the way of empathy in moderation" when expressing passions, a way which includes sincerity (be loyal to oneself) and faithfulness (be compassionate to others). Thirdly, the essay proposes the importance of "habit" in expressing passions: "knowing" and "thinking" is indispensible to one's acquisition of "habit" in learning "the way of empathy in moderation"; one has to "assimilate oneself into nature" and cultivates the habit of expressing "the way of empathy in moderation". Finally, this essay is to affirm the viewpoint presented in "Nature Emerges from Life" in the Guodian Chu Slips, "One must temper passion with reason before expressing or receiving it, and then it should be seasoned with ritual." This viewpoint provides us with a model of "passion to be stressed and to be well expressed" and with a humanistic value on the humanistic way of "passion deep and ritual clear".
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