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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 (10[1])thinker wrote that people would act well if led by a virtuous ruler likened to the North Star. (10[1])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 (-5[1])a concept translated as “humaneness.” This thinker’s negative variant of the Golden Rule is called the Silver Rule. (-5[1])This thinker’s five “fundamental relationships” are characterized by a respect (10[1])for one’s elders (10[2])called filial piety. (10[1])For 10 points, what Chinese thinker’s sayings are collected in the Analects? (10[1]) (10[1])■END■

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