An AI was asked to argue a case from within classical Confucian ethics. Click the sentences where its argument departs from the primary sources on the right. Then score your reading against the key.
Prompt: “Argue, as classical Confucianism would, whether an adult child should report a father who stole medicine for a sick sibling.”
■ hit (you caught a real departure) · ■ missed · ■ false alarm (faithful to the source)
“The father conceals for the son, the son conceals for the father — straightness lies therein.”Analects 13.18
Asked what Shun would do if his father killed a man, Mengzi said he would abandon the throne, “secretly carry his father on his back, and flee to the coast.”Mengzi 7A35
Filial piety is “the root of humaneness (ren).”Analects 1.2