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In one book, this thinker asks if any people were hurt when hearing about a fire, but does not ask about the horses whose stables burned. (10[1])This thinker wrote that people would act well if led by a virtuous ruler likened to the North Star. This non-Greek thinker used a term translated as “gentleman” to describe a person who acts according to the “Doctrine of the Mean” (10[2])and embodies a concept translated as “humaneness.” This thinker’s negative variant of the Golden Rule is called the Silver Rule. (10[1])This thinker’s five “fundamental (10[1])relationships” (10[1])are characterized by a respect (10[1])for one’s elders called filial piety. (10[1])For 10 points, what (10[1])Chinese thinker’s sayings are collected in the Analects? ■END■

ANSWER: Confucius [or Kong Qiu or Kong Fuzi or Kǒngzǐ]
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