《中庸》英译（六）

子曰：“舜其大知也与！舜好问而好察迩言，隐恶而扬善。执其两端，用其中于民，其斯以为舜乎！”

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Confucius remarked: “There was the Emperor Shun. He was perhaps what may be considered a truly great intellect. Shun had a natural curiosity of mind and he loved to inquire into near facts (literally ‘near words,’ meaning here ordinary topics of conversation in every day life). He looked upon evil merely as something negative; and he recognised only what was good as having a positive existence. Taking the two extremes of negative and positive, he applied the mean between the two extremes in his judgement, employment and dealings with people. This was the characteristic of Shun’s great intellect.”