Translation for "sagehood" to spanish
Sagehood
Translation examples
Can he be said to bring but small benefit?’31 Confucius had believed that sagehood had been achieved only by the great kings of the distant past.
¿Acaso puede decirse que el beneficio que aporta es poco?».31 Confucio creía que solo los reyes sabios del remoto pasado habían alcanzado la sabiduría.
His study was still informed by ‘faith in the possibility of sagehood’: ‘The purpose of studying is to nourish a man’s innate goodness to make him develop into a worthy or a sage.’144 The new textual criticism was a spiritual as well as an intellectual quest.
Su estudio aún estaba imbuido de la «fe en la posibilidad de la sabiduría»: «El propósito del estudio es alimentar la bondad innata en el hombre a fin de transformarlo en un sabio o en alguien de valía».144 La nueva crítica textual era una búsqueda tanto espiritual como intelectual.
‘When they were fourteen or fifteen,’ he recalled later, ‘the two Chengs were already free [from wrong ideas] and wanted to learn to be sages.’123 They were convinced that the ‘Western Inscription’ recorded a lost teaching of Confucius and that sagehood was not confined to the ancient past but could be achieved by anybody in the present.
«Cuando tenía catorce o quince años —recordó más tarde—, los dos Cheng ya estaban libres [de ideas erróneas] y querían aprender a ser sabios.»123 Estaban convencidos de que la «Inscripción Occidental» registraba una enseñanza perdida de Confucio y que la sabiduría no estaba confinada al pasado remoto, sino que podía ser alcanzada por cualquiera en el presente.
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