Bibliographic record
Abstract
If a man have not order within him He can not spread order about him (Canto xiii /59) In the Western intellectual tradition, Ezra Pound stands as a unique Confucian disciple. After Christian missionaries to China first introduced the thought of Confucius to European readers in the seventeenth century, the Chinese sage consistently attracted admirers and adherents including such renowned Western thinkers and writers as Leibniz, Voltaire, and Emerson. But unlike his distinguished predecessors, whose interest in Confucianism stemmed primarily from the presumption that its rational philosophy could serve to legitimize their own Enlightenment ideal of a modern socio-political formation founded on reason, Pound was drawn to another element. Within Confucianism, he located the empowering means to resist the socio-political alienation of humanity engendered by the conditions of Western capitalist modernity. With this profound agenda, Pound was able to surpass all his Western predecessors both in the depth of his grasp of Confucian ideas and in the extent of his commitment to transmitting these ideas – “the blossoms from the east” – to the West ( xiii /60). But Pound was never content to act merely as a passive transmitter of Confucian ideas. Instead, he sought to establish Confucianism's contemporary relevance by reinventing a new Confucian humanist discourse – an ideological weapon that could help him to address effectively the “immediate need” of a Western world in crisis ( SPR , 75). He effected this reinvention of Confucianism through his creative translations, poetic configurations, and theoretical formulations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".