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In one book, this thinker asks if any people were hurt when hearing about a fire, (10[1])but does not ask about the horses whose stables burned. This thinker wrote that people would act well if led (10[1])by a virtuous ruler (-5[1])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” and embodies a concept translated as “humaneness.” This thinker’s negative variant of the Golden Rule is called the Silver Rule. This thinker’s five “fundamental relationships” are characterized by a respect (10[1])for one’s elders (10[1])called filial piety. For 10 points, what Chinese thinker’s (10[1])sayings are collected in the Analects? ■END■

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