ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS

Analects of Confucius

by Confucius

Paperback, 386 pages

English language

Published March 30, 1994 by Sinolingua.

ISBN:: 978-7-80052-407-3

(4 reviews)

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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4 stars

As lovely for the extensive translators notes (in introduction and appendix) as for the text, an intentional move away from western philosophical terms (heaven, morality) and assumptions (essentialism, individualism) and towards a co-relational, cyclical/ambiguous/multiplicity-of-meanings, philosophically important Chinese terms/characters left to stand for themselves, readable translation.