Hanfeizi · 難二第三十七
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今以為身處危而人尚可戰，
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今以為身處危而人尚可戰，Identify means, basis, and purpose ↗今以為身處危而人尚可戰，Distinguish doing, being, and acting for ↗今以為身處危而人尚可戰，Read the relationship between clauses ↗是以百族之子於上皆若孝子之愛親也，Follow an explicit inference ↗是以百族之子於上皆若孝子之愛親也，Locate a relation ↗是以百族之子於上皆若孝子之愛親也，Build a conditional reading ↗Watch recurrence: 人 × 5 之 × 4 而 × 3 也 × 3 以 × 2 是 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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荀子 · 榮辱篇第四好利惡害材性知能，君子小人一也。好榮惡辱，好利惡害，是君子小人之所同也，若其所以求之之道則異矣。
莊子 · 人間世第四子之愛親下有大戒二：其一，命也；其一，義也。子之愛親，命也，不可解於心；臣之事君，義也，
韓非子 · 備內第十七夫人之所，則身見䟽賤，而子疑不為後，此后妃、夫人之所以冀其君之死者也。
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- Work
- 韓非子 · Hanfeizi
- Attribution
- Traditionally associated with Han Fei; authorship of individual chapters is not uniform or certain.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR3c0005 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR3c0005_037.txt, lines 664–674. HF 37.15:02; jiaoshi 344; jishi i40; jiaozhu 532; shiping 1410
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Source-file SHA-256: 17bf1839934f2720019da7356c0e504464030787b2bdfac5153b2bf82f0f39ec. A source comment that cites a translator is an upstream reference, not the attribution of a translation imported here.