Benevolence

The benevolence is the emotional provision of a will which aims at the good and the happiness of others. The term is copied on Latin bucket volens who thereafter, also gave the lexical Doublet bénévolence.

Buddhism

Benevolence is one of the usual translations of Maitrī in Sanskrit (metta, in faded), meaning in the beginning friendship , fraternity . It is counted among the incommensurable Four, the practice of the emotional qualities directed towards the Bodhicitta in Buddhism Mahāyāna. Maitreya, the Benevolent one, is the name of nearest the awaited Bouddha.

Confucianism

According to Marcel Granet, the " bénévolence" confucéenne means the will and the act to make good and does not have the possible condescending connotation of " bienveillance" , or exemption from payment of Voluntary help.

With the Japan, the benevolence (仁 - Jin in Japanese) is one of the basic concepts of the Bushido. Inazo Nitobe gives this description of it:

Confucius and Mencius, one like the other, often affirmed it: the fundamental quality of a chief is the benevolence. Confucius would have said: “That the prince cultivates the virtues and the people will come to him masses some, with the people will come the grounds, with the grounds the richness. This richness will be the benefit of the straightness of the prince. Virtue is root, richness is harvest”. And still “Never one does not live of benevolent prince, monarch of people which do not like the virtue”. As for Mencius, it put its steps in his while saying: “One can quote examples of men able to reach a supreme capacity in certain regions in spite of a total misses benevolence but never I did not hear of whole empires falling into the hands from the one from those which would miss this virtue. Moreover, it is impossible with whoever to become monarch of people which would not have made him, au préalable, allegiance of his heart. ” - “the benevolence, says it with Confucius, makes the man”.

Christianity

The benevolence is a characteristic of Good Pasteur, Christ, as well as a feature of the pastors to which it entrusted its herd.

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