Environment
Choosing one's environment to support moral development.
Environment influences character. Living in a virtuous community, associating with worthy friends, and avoiding corrupting influences all support cultivation. Choose your environment wisely.
It is beautiful to live among ren. How can one be considered wise if they do not choose to live among ren?
Environment shapes character development.
Analects
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- What Confucianism says about failure
Confucianism also refuses a purely internal account of failure. Character is shaped by surroundings, and Analects 4.1 calls it unwise not to choose to live among the humane. Sometimes the honest fix after a fall is different company.