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Ren

Humaneness: the supreme Confucian virtue of benevolence and love for others.

Also: jen, humaneness, benevolence

Daoism and Chinese thought

Ren, written with the characters for person and two, is humaneness, the virtue of the fully human person in relation to others. Confucius made it central and refused to claim it for himself; when asked, he said it is to love others. Neo-Confucians described it as forming one body with all things.