The object of a Higher Education is to bring out (明) the intelligent (明) moral power (德) of our nature;to make a new and better society (lit.people);and to enable us to abide in the highest excellence.
When a man has a standard of excellence before him,and only then,will he have a fixed and definite purpose;with a fixed and definite purpose,and only then,will he be able to have peace and tranquillity of mind;with tranquillity of mind,and only then,will he be able to have peace and tranquillity of soul;with peace and serenity of soul,and only then,can he devote himself to deep,serious thinking and reflection;and it is only by deep,serious thinking and reflection that a man can attain true culture.
大学·中庸传一章
1.《康诰》曰:“克明德。”
The Commission of Investiture to Prince Kang says:“He (the Emperor Wen) succeeded in making manifest the power of his moral nature.”
2.《大甲》曰:“顾天之明命。”
In the Address of the Minister I-Yin to the Emperor Tai Chia,it is said:“He (the great Emperor Tang) kept constantly before him the clear Ordinance of God.”
3.《帝典》曰:“克明峻德。”
In the Memorial Record of the Emperor Yao,it is said:“He succeeded in making manifest the lofty sublimity of his moral nature.”
4.皆自明也。
Thus all these men made manifest the intelligent moral power of their nature.
传之首章。释明明德。
This section explains what“to bring out the intelligent power of our nature,”means.
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