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No other book in the entire history of the world has exerted a greater influence on a larger number of people over a longer period of time than this slim volume. The spiritual cornerstone of the most populous and oldest living civilization on Earth, the Analects has inspired the Chinese and all the peoples of East Asia with its affirmation of a humanist ethics. As the Gospels are to Jesus, the Analects is the only place where we can encounter the real, living Confucius.
In this gem-like translation by Simon Leys, Confucius speaks with clarity and brilliance. He emerges as a man of great passion and many enthusiasms, a man of bold action whose true vocation is politics. Confucius (551-479 B.C.) lived in an age of acute cultural and political crisis. Many of his observations mark a world sinking into violence and barbarity.
Unable to obtain the leading political role he sought, he endeavored to reform society and salvage civilization through ethical debate, defining for ages to come the public mission of the intellectual.
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Chinese Philosophy, 儒家, Translations into English, Chinese classics, Philosophy, 哲學, Lun yü, great_books_of_the_western_world, Early works to 1800, 中國, 孔子, Confucian Philosophy, 中国, Ethics, Confucianism, Chinese Ethics, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Lun yu, Han, ying, Dui zhao du wu, Confucius, Philosophy, chinese, Philosophy, asian, Confucian parables, Ethics--china, Pl2478 .l328 1998, 181/.112, Filosofie, EthiekPlaces
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The Sayings of Confucius
December 1, 1999, Graham Brash (Pte.) Ltd ,Singapore
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The analects of Confucius: a philosophical translation
1999, Ballantine Books
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ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS
March 30, 1994, Sinolingua
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The sayings of Confucius: a new translation of the greater part of the Confucian analects
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Here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember Confucius - informed for the first time by the manuscript version found at Dingzhou in 1973, a partial text dating to 55 b.c.e. and only made available to the scholarly world in 1997. Based on the earliest Analects yet discovered, this translation provides us with a new perspective on the central canonical text that has defined Chinese culture - and clearly illuminates the spirit and mind-set of Confucius.
Based on the latest research and complete with both Chinese and English texts, this revealing translation serves both as an excellent introduction to Confucian thought and as an authoritative addition to sophisticated debate.
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