The Analects

Author: Jin Fanping
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Publish Date: 2001-05-01
Features: The Analects is a highly reliable authoritative text of Confucianism, recording the words of "Confucius responding to his disciples, contemporaries, and the exchanges among disciples that he overheard from the Master." The loose surface structure, the tension and jumps between sentences, do not make the entire political, ethical, and moral system fabricated or elaborated fragmented. The and doctrines constructed in this collection form a comprehensive conceptual system that reflects the highly coordinated order of individuals, families, states, and social-political structures, the rationality of human ethics and behavioral rituals, as well as the harmony of personal inner sentiments. The Dao is like a vast void, containing and giving birth to the various possibilities of harmonious unity between human society and the objective world. The entirety of the Dao lies in its inclusion of the harmonious relationship between human society and nature, where they mutually depend on each other. "," where means "Confucius said," or as it is said in The Analects. As a comprehensive work of Confucian thought, its ideological world is not an overseas paradise or a celestial pavilion, but a human-centered social environment where people are both the starting point of action and the result of action. This ( means "" or "") Analects is accompanied by annotations and translations, with an enlightening article following each chapter, making it suitable for young readers to study.