Humaneness can be applicable in a modern democratic setting .
仁爱也是一个现代化的、民主的环境所需要的。
There are of course many other important confucian tenets but humaneness illustrates how the confucian present need not be the confucian past .
当然，儒家还有许多其他重要的教义，但是阐明仁爱，需要现在的儒家，不需要过去的儒家。
Historically humaneness was used as a confucian standard to judge authoritarian politics because that was the kind of politics common to historical china .
