The concept of Ai ( 愛 ) was developed by the Chinese philosopher Mozi in the 4th century BC in reaction to Confucianism's benevolent love.

As the overlord State of Lu was the home state of Confucius and many of his disciples, this means that Confucianism's founder, and most of its minor sages and wise men hailed from or had ancestral roots in these two ancient states of China.

The gentry were retired scholar-officials, and their descendants, who lived in large landed estates due to Confucianism's affinity to and advocacy of the worthiness of agriculture and hostility to commerce and mercantile pursuits.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

In one of these, an exploding-wire device to study systems thermodynamically up to 6,000 Af and 100 atmospheres pressure, a major goal was achieved.

This project was carried out under sponsorship of the Ballistic Missile Division of the Air Research and Development Command, U.S. Air Force, and had as its goal the investigation of the transport by diffusion of the heat energy of chemical binding.

A goal was fixed, as given in Table 2, and attention focused on its fulfillment.

Since experience indicates that effluents from oxidation ponds do not create major problems at these BOD concentrations, the goal for the effluent quality of the accelerated treatment system was the same as from conventional oxidation ponds.

She was his goal, she was his reason.

It was the first time we've been ahead this season ( when John Richey kicked what proved to be the winning field goal ) ''.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

Askington was a kind of goal I set myself ; ;

His goal was now to reunify the nation.

The goal was to demonstrate the superior power of " free labor ", whereby a common farm boy could work his way to the top by his own efforts.

The President said the primary goal of his actions as president ( he used the first person pronoun and explicitly refers to his " official duty ") was preserving the Union:

The damage caused by Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia in 1864 was limited to a swath, but neither Lincoln nor his commanders saw destruction as the main goal, but rather defeat of the Confederate armies.

The goal of clear concise communication is that the receiver ( s ) have no misunderstanding about what was meant to be conveyed.

William Baker Ashton was appointed Governor of the temporary goal in 1839, and in 1840 George Strickland Kingston was commissioned to design Adelaide's new Gaol.

The goal was to enhance the status of the graziers ( operators of big sheep ranches ) and small farmers, and justified subsidies for them.

The goal of the Annales was to undo the work of the Sorbonnistes, to turn French historians away from the narrowly political and diplomatic toward the new vistas in social and economic history.

It seems that the goal of the designer was to avoid straight lines completely.

Their goal was to regain access to Eden by finding the correct formula for perfect living, following specific rules governing agriculture, diet, and reproduction.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

The spread of the Akkadian state as far as the " silver mountain " ( possibly the Taurus Mountains ), the " cedars " of Lebanon, and the copper deposits of Magan, was largely motivated by the goal of securing control over these imports.

Throughout his career, Alaric's primary goal was not to undermine the Empire, but to secure for himself a regular and recognized position within the Empire's borders.

The Confucianism goal was " a cultured status position ", while Puritanism's goal was to create individuals who are " tools of God ".

Maintenance of the status quo might seem to be the appropriate goal or objective of this population today.

What then is the status of such questions as: is society the ground of human existence or a means to an individual goal??

Supporters consider cheerleading, as a whole, a sport, citing the heavy use of athletic talents while critics do not see it as deserving of that status since sport implies a competition among squads and not all squads compete, along with subjectivity of competitions where-as with gymnastics, diving, and figure skating-scores are assessed based on human judgment and not an objective goal or measurement of time.

Though sharing the same goal as Madison, most other delegates reacted strongly against such an extreme change to the status quo.

Gandhi pushed through a resolution at the Calcutta Congress in December 1928 calling on the British government to grant India dominion status or face a new campaign of non-cooperation with complete independence for the country as its goal.

The pamphlet argued that the ruling class of Italy supported the Piazza Fontana bombing and other covert, false flag mass slaughter for the higher goal of defending the capitalist status quo from communist influence.

To a majority, however, republican status remained for the moment an unattainable goal, with the republic unrecognised internationally.

The UVF's goal was to combat Irish republicanism – particularly the Provisional Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) – and maintain Northern Ireland's status as part of the United Kingdom.

And this view, or some variant of it, has been influential in philosophy since Descartes elevated the search for incontrovertible certainty to the status of the primary goal of epistemology, whilst also elevating epistemology to " first philosophy ".

The Center launched a new Outreach program in 1995, funded entirely by donations, with the goal of bringing together all the children of the community, regardless of neighborhoods, economic status, or whether or not they were Center members.

Examples include Bill Mazeroski, who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to end a seventh game of the World Series with a walk-off home run ( however, Mazeroski is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, due primarily to his status as one of the greatest defensive infielders of all time ); Paul Henderson, a Canadian ice hockey player who scored the deciding goal in the 1972 Summit Series ; Mike Jones, who tackled Kevin Dyson at the one-yard line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV ; and Jimmy Glass, an English football goalkeeper, who is remembered for scoring a goal in the last seconds of the final day of 1998-99 English Third Division that kept his club in The Football League.

Chen Shui-bian and his party had continued to express an ultimate goal of de jure Taiwanese independence, and made statements on the political status of Taiwan that the PRC considers provocative.

Team meetings since there will be an implicit comparison between every team member especially if the meeting agenda is the presentation of results and goal status.

Henkel said that it was his main goal to prevent the game from being " crippled " before leaving Interplay when the game reached beta status.

One societal group ( class ) owned and controlled the means of production, while another societal class worked the means of production ; in the relations of production of that status quo, the goal of the owner-class was to economically benefit as much as possible from the labour of the working class.

In 1693, Frederick III began to sound out the possibility of an elevation of his status at the Habsburg court in Vienna, and while the first attempt was unsuccessful, elevation to a king remained the central goal on his agenda.

* Action Access A1079-aim to improve A1079 road, long-term goal for dual carriageway ( status: in progress )

His goal was to demonstrate a correlation between money and social status and the likelihood of going to jail for a white-collar crime.

The goal of the conquistadors was to increase their status and that of their descendants.

One of the goal of this National Origins Formula, established in 1929, was explicitly to keep the status quo distribution of ethnicity, by allocating quotas in proportion to the actual population.

However, despite remaining in the bottom three for the majority of the season, Wigan managed to retain their Premier League status on the last day of the season, defeating Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium thanks to a goal from Hugo Rodallega.