The early Confucian worry about yuan (resentment)

• Main Author: Sung, Winnie
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Confucian Ethics; Yuan
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143080
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This article focuses on a psychological phenomenon discussed by the early Confucian: yuan 怨, which is often translated as “resentment”, “grievance”, “lament”, or “complaint”. I attempt to use the early Confucian discussions of yuan to shed light on an aspect of human psychology, namely, when one lam...