... yeah, nope. But it does support scholars who point to the emotional capacities of the Confucian sage and the importance. Here it suggests an ability to encounter anyone and respond with care - supported again by an intimate awareness of empathy.

Does this mean Kongzi is secretely a disciple of Mozi?!

汎 is more commonly "drift" or "float," which suggests "in a non-intentional manner," or "as you come into contact with." This gives "indiscriminate" as a reasonable but imperfect single-term translation.

Kongzi: "Hey, I like rituals."
Pope Generic III: "Hey, we like rituals too!"
Kongzi: "But we must reform the rituals in accordance with virtue."
Pope Generic III: "You lost me."

no no no we don't want to!

The contrast reveals an important issue for early Greek thought, their inability to reconcile negation (or total absence) with presence.

Contrast this with Buddhism: awareness is not only a precondition for ethical behavior but the living heart of enlightenment.

In other words, there are minds that actively conceive the world merely in hypothetical maxims - which for Kant means the simple causal relationship of if x then y.

This might be another example in which Peirce is not actually as "pragmatist" as he could be (queue jokes about "pragmaticism").