This implies that even if Analects 13.3 is, as the text-critics argue, a later interpolation, germs of a concern with language issues are already present in the earlier version of Ruist thought exemplified by the Analects. While this concern is not exactly equivalent to the so-called doctrine of “correcting names” reported in Analects 13.3, it bears crucial points of continuity with the latter. The underlying concern lies in the fact that a person’s words can be used to put up a false front so as to make him seem better than he really is. One consistent motif that can be found in the text is a denigration of clever or skillful speech and a corresponding commendation of carefulness or even slowness in speech. The study examines what Confucius of the Analects has to say about the relationship between language and speech, on the one hand, and moral virtue or the good society, on the other hand.
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