# Junzi, exemplary person

- Id: `junzi_exemplary_person`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/junzi-exemplary-person/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `5ec71445781f997c082010d56280ea7c3bdda482aeb4973b78e7c6849483e729`

## Summary

The junzi is the exemplary person who cultivates character, speech, and conduct rather than merely seeking rank or profit.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 175 passages across 53 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Ancient testimonia on Carneades. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus:7",
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_memorabilia:3.5",
    "passage:socrates.plato_symposium:209"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "君子",
    "superior man",
    "homme de bien"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 53,
    "passages": 175,
    "thinkers": 18,
    "traditions": 10
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "political-thought",
        "name": "Political thought and democracy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/political-thought-and-democracy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddhism",
        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "chinese-thought",
        "name": "Early Chinese thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/early-chinese-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    },
    {
        "id": "islam",
        "name": "Islam",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/islam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "christianity",
        "name": "Christianity",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/christianity/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "abraham_lincoln.papers_context",
        "title": "Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents",
        "author": "Correspondents and archival record",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/abraham-lincoln-archive-correspondents/incoming-mail-and-context/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "carneades.ancient_testimonia",
        "title": "Ancient testimonia on Carneades",
        "author": "Carneades",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/carneades/ancient-testimonia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_finibus",
        "title": "On Ends",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-finibus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "confucius.analects",
        "title": "The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)",
        "author": "Confucius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/confucius/analects/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.essay_human_understanding",
        "title": "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/essay-human-understanding/"
    },
    {
        "id": "locke.second_treatise",
        "title": "Second Treatise of Government",
        "author": "John Locke",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/john-locke/second-treatise/"
    },
    {
        "id": "laozi.daodejing",
        "title": "Daodejing, Book of the Way and Virtue",
        "author": "Laozi",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/laozi/daodejing/"
    },
    {
        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
        "title": "Meditations",
        "author": "Marcus Aurelius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "montaigne.essais",
        "title": "The Essays",
        "author": "Michel de Montaigne",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/montaigne/essais/"
    },
    {
        "id": "muhammad.quran",
        "title": "The Qur’an",
        "author": "Muhammad",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/muhammad/quran/"
    },
    {
        "id": "musonius_rufus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Musonius Rufus Reported by Lucius",
        "author": "Musonius Rufus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/musonius-rufus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.epinomis",
        "title": "Epinomis, an Ancient Appendix to the Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/epinomis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.euthydemus",
        "title": "Euthydemus",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/euthydemus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.hippias_minor",
        "title": "Hippias Minor",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/hippias-minor/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laches",
        "title": "Laches",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laches/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.lysis",
        "title": "Lysis",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/lysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.meno",
        "title": "Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.minos",
        "title": "Minos, a Pseudo-Platonic Dialogue",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/minos/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.republic",
        "title": "Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.symposium",
        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_beneficiis",
        "title": "On Benefits",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-beneficiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_clementia",
        "title": "On Clemency",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-clementia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_ira",
        "title": "On Anger",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-ira/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_otio",
        "title": "On Leisure",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-otio/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_providentia",
        "title": "On Providence",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-providentia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_vita_beata",
        "title": "On the Happy Life",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-vita-beata/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_apology",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Apology",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-apology/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_gorgias",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-gorgias/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_laches",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Laches",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-laches/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_meno",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Meno",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-meno/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_protagoras",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Protagoras",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-protagoras/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_republic",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Republic",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-republic/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_memorabilia",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Memorabilia",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-memorabilia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_oeconomicus",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-oeconomicus/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.old_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: Old Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-old-testament/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.new_testament",
        "title": "The Bible: New Testament",
        "author": "Biblical traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/biblical-traditions/the-bible-new-testament/"
    },
    {
        "id": "bible.gospels",
        "title": "The Four Gospels",
        "author": "Gospel traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/gospel-traditions/the-four-gospels/"
    }
]
```