Analects 4:4

Analects 4:4

Confucius said “If you are really committed to humaneness, you will have no evil in you”

I interpret it that being humane means being good and being good means having no evil in you. Evil has no space in a person who is humane, because being humane means being courteous, generous, honest, persistent and kind. If you are courteous means you are good to others and being good to others means being arrogant is gone in you. If you are generous means being good to others and being good to others means being bad is gone in you. If you are honest means you are sincere and if you are sincere means insincerity is gone in you. If you are persistent means you are determined and if you are determined means laziness and irresoluteness are gone in you. If you are kind means you are good-hearted and if you are good-hearted means being unkind is gone in you. So overall, being humane is really mean having no evil in you because the characteristics of being humane erased all the negative characteristics which are evil.