Question

In one book, this thinker asks if any people were hurt when hearing about a fire, but does not ask about the horses (10[1])whose stables burned. 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 (10[1])“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 (10[1])Golden Rule is called the Silver Rule. This thinker’s five “fundamental relationships” (10[1])are characterized by a respect for one’s elders called (10[1])filial (10[1])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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