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By exploring Confucius' attitude towards time, change, and transformation in the "Analects", this paper aims to illustrate that temporality plays a crucial role in Confucian ethics. Confucius uses the notion of timeliness as an ethical guide in self-cultivation and moral practice in order to harmonize human beings with all the events of change. This paper argues that timely sagehood is a key quality of the junzi or "excellent person." To be a timely sage, a junzi must cultivate the virtue of yi. This paper presents a conceptualization of "yi" in the "Analects" and proposes that its meanings limited to "righteousness" and "appropriateness" in the sense of morality, legitimacy and justice, include a sense of timeliness, namely, the quality of timely action and the inner intellectual capacity of a junzi to evaluate and work out the appropriate course of an action in an actual situation.

The "social agronomy" was supported initially by a number of intellectuals, who treated the most significant economic, social, cultural and political situation of the Romanian village, agriculture and peasant in the first half of the twentieth century. Proposals are reviewed and critically and constructively relate to all aspects of human social life as interdependent parts of the whole society. Although the findings and objectives of its belonging to the interwar period, many of which are available today. Also, we consider that has not completed its historic mission, many of the ideas and proposals are still present and future.

Introduction / Hans Joas and Daniel R. Huebner -- History, historiography, historical sociology -- Changing "movements of thought in the nineteenth century": historical text and historical context / Charles Camic -- On Mead's long lost history of science / Daniel R. Huebner -- Pragmatism and historicism: Mead's philosophy of temporality and the logic of historiography / Hans Joas -- George Herbert Mead and the promise of pragmatist democracy / Robert Westbrook -- The theory of intersubjectivity as a theory of the human being: George Herbert Mead and the German tradition of philosophical anthropology / Karl-Siegbert Rehberg -- Nature, environment, process -- Naturalism and despair: George Herbert Mead and evolution in the 1880s / Trevor Pearce -- George Herbert Mead as a socio-environmental thinker / Bradley H. Brewster and Antony J. Puddephatt -- Social worlds: the legacy of Mead's social ecology in Chicago sociology / Daniel Cefaï -- Mead, Whitehead, and the sociality of nature / Michael L. Thomas -- Cognition, conscience, language -- Mead, the theory of mind, and the problem of others / Ryan McVeigh -- Imitation and taking the attitude of the other / Kelvin Jay Booth -- Mead meets Tomasello: pragmatism, the cognitive sciences, and the origins of human communication and sociality / Frithjof Nungesser -- Conscience as ecological participation and the maintenance of moral perplexity / Joshua Daniel -- Presentation and re-presentation: language, content, and the reconstruction of experience / Roman Madzia -- G. H. Mead's understanding of the nature of speech in the light of contemporary research / Timothy Gallagher.