This sentence comes from a passage in Ceng Zi's University. To put it simply, this sentence means that the way to survive in a university is to be close to the people and love the people, to achieve the highest goodness first, and then to care about noble morality. In fact, this article is about Confucian prose on self-cultivation and governing the country. This article is only about Ceng Zi's writing, but I don't know who the real author is.
This is the way everyone gets along. The height we want is the pursuit of such a height. When people get along with each other, trust and respect are mutual. The article "University" focuses on personal cultivation, and cultivating good moral thoughts is the same as cultivating one's morality, keeping one's family in order and governing the country.
The main central idea of this article can be summarized as "cultivate one's morality for the people's security", with the theme of "showing virtue, being close to the people and stopping at perfection" and eight items of "respecting things, knowing and doing, being honest, being upright, cultivating one's morality, keeping the family in order, governing the country and leveling the world". These are the ideological and political issues that we college students should study now.
The outlook on life put forward in The University is closely related to Confucianism. The political content we are studying now is undoubtedly a further expansion of the Confucian outlook on life. Then our existing outlook on life is to pay attention to personal cultivation and have positive goals for ourselves. Only with goals can we struggle.
In fact, in society, there are many comfortable modes for people to get along with each other. What do you think of this sentence differently? Let me know. Let me make up my mind.