A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian AnalectsThe Master
A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects: The Master
Rosemont, Henry
2015-11-05 00:00:00
[There are a few good biographies of Confucius in English, but just as it is better to become acquainted with his students directly from the text, so, too, with their teacher: The Analects contains a sufficient number of autobiographical and biographical statements about him to enable the careful reader to take a measure of the man when they feel it is important to do so. The measuring is not always easy; however, for the same reason that makes assessing the students a difficult task at times: A number of the relevant statements do not sit well with others equally relevant. The inflexibility he says he dislikes, for example, in 9.4 and 14.32 seems to be amply in evidence in much of Book 10 and elsewhere, when it comes to the niceties of ritual performance. And we must also wonder why, in at least some cases, he gives such divergent opinions of the same student.]
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A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian AnalectsThe Master
[There are a few good biographies of Confucius in English, but just as it is better to become acquainted with his students directly from the text, so, too, with their teacher: The Analects contains a sufficient number of autobiographical and biographical statements about him to enable the careful reader to take a measure of the man when they feel it is important to do so. The measuring is not always easy; however, for the same reason that makes assessing the students a difficult task at times: A number of the relevant statements do not sit well with others equally relevant. The inflexibility he says he dislikes, for example, in 9.4 and 14.32 seems to be amply in evidence in much of Book 10 and elsewhere, when it comes to the niceties of ritual performance. And we must also wonder why, in at least some cases, he gives such divergent opinions of the same student.]
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