Humanity as Benevolence - Exploring the Analects of Confucianism

Author: Guo Mianyu
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: We dedicate this series of books to young friends, hoping that you can "walk into the classics!" During the compilation of this series, our primary focus was on revealing how classics are created. While the classics created by masters are indeed great, the process of creating them is even more intriguing. The purpose of reading classics is twofold: to gain knowledge and to learn the unique qualities of these masters. The latter is more important than the former. Because more important than knowledge itself is how to acquire knowledge. Classics are not fossilized remains but vibrant organisms. Our greatest hope is that when you put down the book, you can feel that the classics of these masters are vivid and lifelike, just like mentors and friends who have recently walked away from you. Their kind and wise voices still linger in your ears. This series of books specially includes timelines of the masters' lives and creative works, also for this reason. Another wish we have is to interpret the classics in a vivid, fluent, and clear manner. Truly classic works are profound yet accessible, discussing deep thoughts in simple language, both intellectually brilliant and beautifully written. The text introducing the classics should inherit this style. This series of books also incorporates a large number of images selected in line with the content of the works, for the same purpose. Additionally, this series places special emphasis on the diversity and representativeness of the classics selected, choosing works from various fields such as literature, philosophy, sociology, painting, and music from ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad. For each book introducing a classic, we focus on selecting the most important representative works of the masters while also considering the reading preferences of young readers. For example, Ba Jin's works are primarily selected as Home rather than A Night in Winter, Darwin's works as On the Origin of Species rather than The Descent of Man, and Charlie Chaplin's works as Modern Times rather than The Great Dictator, all of which were carefully chosen.