...hierarchy (Lin 1939). Generally, there are five lun or relationships in a classical Confucian society: ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger brother, friend and friend. A Confucian gentleman is a man who keeps these five fundamental relationships in...

...Chinese morals, philosophy, astronomy, and civil law. The five famous Confucian relationships were: ruler and subject; father and son; husband and wife; elder brother and younger brother; Mend and friend. However, as evidenced by their language, they had an understanding from the most remote...

...and duty." "To Confucius," another tells me, "filial piety is based on five primary relationships — ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger brother, friend and friend. All of these, except friend to friend, are hierarchical relationships." Says still...

...basic unit of society, and an ideal community can be built upon the proper maintenance of the relations between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger brother, and friends. In this ethical system known as the Five Human Relations, three are directly pertinent...

...to these sages, is confined to the five constituent relations of society. These relations are those between ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger, friend and • The Sliu King, is a compilation of historical documents, and the oldest of Chinese books....

...responsibility. Confucianism selects five such as including all persons: "There are the relations of ruler and subject, father and son, husband and wife, elder brother and younger, friend and friend, and the duties severally belonging to them. No one, intelligent or stupid, can dispense...