Rationalism (理学), Heart Study (心学)

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= 格物致知 =
+    Comprehension Comes Understanding

    理不辨不明.
+    Reason cannot be discerned without discerning.
    物不格不知.
+    Things without comprehension wouldn't be known.

    无善无恶心之体: 有善有恶意之动.
+    No kind no evil the body of heart: Of kind of evil the move of will.
    知善知恶是良知: 为善为恶皆格物.
+    Know kind know evil be the conscience: Be kind be evil both the Comprehension.

    固知多行不义必自毙: 然善, 未必得善终.
+    Definitely know frequently practicing dishonorable must self trap: But kind, does not necessarily end in kindness.

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    何为善恶?
+    What are kind evil?
    善故善乎? 恶故恶?
+    Kind are necessarily kind? Evil are evil?

    That cannot be proved: what difference does it make from mere baseless assertions?
+    既无可证: 何异于妄论?
+    As no way to prove: how different from baseless assertions?

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    何以知其然? 无见其不然.
+    How to know it's true? Haven't seen it's not.
    然其孰然? 无以知其然.
+    However it is true? No way to tell if it is.

    When their existence made too little difference: they exist or not is made of little importance.
+    其然无异: 其实无异.
+    Whose truthness no difference: Whose result no difference.

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    Justice, itself is sort of prejudice.
    Just or not, is far beyond what's on the facade only.

    Crime so flagrant, that no court could possibly judge: goes unanswered.

    Both enforcers and legislators at the same time, meanwhile breaking laws meanwhile fixing laws on need.

    不法法: 则事无常.
+    Not ordered by laws: then things inconsistent.
    事本无常: 何以法?
+    Things by nature inconsistent: How to order?

    Une loi de terreur, et des juges d'enfer.
+    A law of terror, and the judges of Hell.
    Dans ce sénat sanglant, les tribuns ont leur voix.
+    In this bloody senate, the tribunes have their voice.

    Tout dans la création, n'est pas humainement beau.
+    All inside the creation, are not entirely humanly beautiful.
    Sens que le laid y existe à côté du beau:
+    Sense that the ugly there exist aside of the beauty:
    Le difforme près du gracieux, le grotesque au revers du sublime.
+    The deformed preceded of the gracious, the disgusted on reverse of the sublime.
    Le mal avec le bien. L'ombre avec la lumière.
+    The mal with the benign. The sombre with the luminated.

    知美之恶, 知恶之美: 然后能知美恶.
+    Realizing the beauty of ugly, the ugly of beauty: then could realize beauty ugly.

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    同则来: 异则去.
+    Same then comes: Depart then different.
    情人如是. 君臣如是.
+    Lovers alike. Sovereigns Officers alike.

    君君臣臣: 各安其序.
+    Sovereign Sovereign Officer Officer: Each resting the Order.
    君君故臣臣.
+    Sovereign Sovereign thus Officer Officer.
    君不君: 臣不臣. 父子类如是.
+    Sovereign unlike Sovereign: Officer unlike Officer. Parent-child mostly alike.

    六亲不和: 安又孝兹?
+    6 affinities unharmonic: How again pious at?
    国家昏乱: 安有贞臣?
+    State bemuddled chaotic: How of faithful Officers?

    君虽尊, 以白为黑: 臣不能听.
+    Sovereign though Supreme, taking white as black: Officer shall not hear.
    父虽亲, 以黑为白: 子不能从.
+    Parent though affinitive, taking black as white: Child shall not follow.


    醒时相交欢: 醉后各分散.
+    Sober times each acquainting joyous: Drunk after each there depart.
    永结无情游: 相期邈云汉.
+    Forever binding the tour emotionless: Each expecting immense cloudy abroad.

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    己所不欲: 勿施于人.
+    What self wished not: Inflict not upon others.
    己之所好: 亦勿覆施.
+    What favored by self: Inflict not upon neither.

    己或以圣人之行为准则.
+    Self may take the Enlightened's practice as guideline.
    可勒令天下俱效耶?
+    May forcibly order the whole world to all follow?
    此昏君不恤民难也.
+    Such the bemuddled Sovereign inconsiderate of the people's difficulty.

    非人欲者, 伪君子也.
+    Dishonoring the people's wills, be hypocrites.