The Analects of Confucius briefly describes what Confucius thinks a gentleman should look like.

Gentlemen value righteousness, while villains value profit.

Confucius said: "A gentleman is righteous, but a villain is beneficial."

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Confucius said: "what a gentleman can understand is morality, and what a villain can understand is interest."

Gentleman: the statement that a gentleman and a villain are completely binary and completely opposite has been seen many times in the Analects of Confucius. In fact, we see almost all people in between. Therefore, in understanding, we should have the view of "dynamic life", that is, we should regard "gentleman" as a person who "aspires to or strives to become a gentleman", while a villain is a person who "unintentionally or gives up becoming a gentleman". Only in this way can we further demonstrate that a gentleman who slacks off may become a villain; If the villain makes progress, he may change his face. In this way, Confucius' educational work has a substantial role and effect.

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The fundamental reason for the emergence of "a gentleman is metaphorical to righteousness, while a villain is metaphorical to benefit" is the existence of the central idea. Confucius said, "The righteousness of a gentleman is quality, and courtesy is behavior." What a gentleman does and doesn't do is only after "righteousness". Gentlemen change things.

As a standard and reference, the external things of the villain are mainly measured by profit. He does not act according to justice, not according to right and wrong, but only according to profit and no profit, with more benefits and less benefits. Little people are influenced by things.

Because a gentleman acts according to righteousness, he can be "unjust, rich as a cloud to me", "everywhere, everywhere", "disheveled people stand with a well-dressed fox and are not ashamed", and because a gentleman has established his own inner standard-righteousness, he can be "Thai but not arrogant", "sick and incompetent, the sick do not know" and "introspective" "A gentleman seeks for himself, and a villain seeks for others." Differences, etc. , all from the different intentions when acting, and the gentleman and the villain are on one side.

Specific meaning: refers to the different value orientations of gentlemen and villains. People with high morality only need to understand the meaning, and people with poor quality can only take advantage. A gentleman should distinguish right from wrong when he is in trouble, and a villain should count his interests when he is in trouble.