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Also known as Kong Ji

Zisi (), born Kong Ji, was a Chinese philosopher and the grandson of Confucius.

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  • What is God-given is what we call human nature. To fulfil the law of our human nature is what we call the moral law. The cultivation of the moral law is what we call culture.
  • Such being the nature of absolute truth, it manifests itself without being seen; it produces effects without motion; it accomplishes its ends without action.
  • Therefore the moral man, even when he is not doing anything, is serious; and, even when he does not speak, is truthful.

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Half Portraits of the Great Sage and Virtuous Men of Old - Kong Ji Zisi (孔伋 子思).jpg
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Zisi depicted in Half Portraits of the Great Sage and Virtuous Men of Old ()housed in the National Palace Museum in Taipei
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Kong Ji
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(aged 78-79)
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Cemetery of Confucius, Lu
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Kong Bai
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Kong Li (father)
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Kǒng Jí

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date of death
0402-00-00
date of birth
0483-00-00
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  • Intellectual genealogy, teaching, criticism
  • Recent discoveries
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Zisi (), born Kong Ji, was a Chinese philosopher and the grandson of Confucius.

== Intellectual genealogy, teaching, criticism == Zisi was the son of Kong Li (孔鯉) (Boyu (伯鱼)) and the only grandson of Confucius. He is traditionally accredited with transmitting Confucian teaching to Mencius and writing the Doctrine of the Mean, Biaoji 表記, "Ziyi" (The Black Robes") 緇衣, and "Fangji" (The Record of the Dikes) 坊記, presently chapters of the Liji. (Since Zisi's dates of life do not overlap with those of Mengzi, it has been suggested that the intermediary role in the transmission was played by Shi Shuo 世碩.)

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