Confucius: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean - Brossura

Confucius

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486227464 ISBN 13: 9780486227467

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2003

Riassunto

Central to the study of Chinese civilization at its widest extension is the thought of the great sage K'ung, usually known in the West by the Latinized form of his name, Confucius. His works form the core of more than two thousand years of Oriental civilization, and even today, when he has been officially discarded, his thought remains important for understanding the present as well as the past. Yet Confucius is the property of not only the Orientalists: his ideas stood behind much of the rational social thought of the European Enlightenment, as great philosophers from Leibnitz on seized with delight "the perfect ethic without supernaturalism: that China offered them.
The present edition of the wisdom of Confucius is certainly the best edition ever prepared in the West. The results of many years of study in China by the great Sinologist James Legge, it contains the entire Chinese text of the Analects (or sayings) of Confucius in large, readable characters, and beneath this Legge's full translation, which has been accepted as the definitive, standard English version. The book also includes The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean.
In addition to the texts and translation, a wealth of helpful material is offered to the reader: countless notes embodying textual studies, commentators' opinions, interpretation of individual characters, disputed meanings, and similar material. More than 125 pages of introduction cover the Chinese classics, the history of the texts in this volume, and the life and influence of Confucius. Most useful, too, is a complete dictionary of all the Chinese characters in the book, with meanings, grammatical comments, place locations, and similar data. Subject and name indexes enable you to find material easily.

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THE PROLEGOMENA. CHAPTER I. OF THE CHINESE CLASSICS GENERALLY. I. Books included under the Name of the Chinese Classics II. The Authority of the Chinese Classics CHAPTER II. OF THE CONFUCIAN ANALECTS. I. Formation of the Text of the Analects by the Scholars of the Han Dynasty II. "At what time, and by whom, the Analects were written ; their Plan ; and Authenticity" III. Of Commentaries upon the Analects IV. Of Various Readings CHAPTER III. OF THE GREAT LEARNING. I. "History of the Text, and the different Arrangements of it which have been proposed" II. "Of the Authorship, and distinction of the Text into Classical Text and Commentary" III. Its Scope and Value CHAPTER IV. THE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN. I. "Its Place in the Lî Chî, and its Publication separately" II. Its Author ; and some account of him III. Its Integrity IV. Its Scope and Value CHAPTER V. CONFUCIOUS AND HIS IMMEDIATE DISCIPLES. I. Life of Confucious II. His Influence and Opinions III. His Immediate Disciples CHAPTER VI. LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS WHICH HAVE BEEN CONSULTED IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS VOLUME. I. "Chinese Works, with Brief Notices" II. Translations and other Works THE BODY OF THE VOLUME. I. CONFUCIAN ANALECTS Book I. Hsio R II. Wei Chang III. Pâ Yî IV. Lî Zan V. Kung Yê Ch'ang VI. Yung Yê VII. Shû R VIII. T'âi-po IX. Tsze Han X. Hsiang Tang XI. Hsien Tsin XII. Yen Yüan XIII. Tsze-lû XIV. Hsien Wan XV. Wei Ling Kung XVI. Chî Shih XVII. Yang Ho XVIII. Wei Tsze XIX. Tsze-chang XX. Yâo Yüeh II. THE GREAT LEARNING III. THE DOCTRINE OF THE MEAN INDEXES. I. Subjects in the Confucian Analects II. Proper Names in the Confucian Analects III. Subjects in the Great Learning IV. Proper Names in the Great Learning V. Subjects in the Doctrine of the Mean VI. Proper Names in the Doctrine of the Mean VII. Chinese Characters and Phrases

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Entire text of the Analects of Confucius in large, readable characters, and beneath this Legge's full translation, which has been accepted and the definitive, standard English version. Full chinese text, standard English translation on same page. Finest edition anywhere of one of world's finest thinkers.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486227464
• ISBN 13: 9780486227467
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 503