[permalink] [id link]
The Analects depict him spending his last years teaching 72 or 77 disciples and transmitting the old wisdom via a set of texts called the Five Classics.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Analects and him
During the Eastern Han the heir apparent was provided a tutor specialized solely in teaching him the Analects.
Confucius believed that, because the ruler was the model for all under him in society, the rectification of names had to begin with the ruler, and that afterwards others would change to imitate him ( Analects 12. 19 ).
As a result of his ability to learn quickly, his father decided to move him to further Confucian texts, such as the Analects, which he practiced on banana leaves.
In his autobiography, Chau admitted he did not understand the meaning of the text in great detail at the time, but by age six, he was skillful enough to write a variant of the Analects that parodied his classmates, which earned him a caning from his father.
Analects and last
According to other ancient Chinese texts like the Book of Documents, the Analects, and the Bamboo Annals, Jizi was a relative of King Zhou, the last ruler of the Shang Dynasty, and one of the three wise men of Shang, along with Weizi ( 微子 ) and Bigan.
The Analects has been one of the most widely read and studied books in China for the last 2, 000 years, and continues to have a substantial influence on Chinese and East Asian thought and values today.
Analects and years
Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death.
The Explanations was written in 248 AD, was quickly recognized as authoritative, and remained the standard guide to interpreting the Analects for nearly 1000 years, until the early Yuan dynasty ( 1271-1368 ).
Analects and teaching
When teaching he is never cited in the Analects as lecturing at length about any subject, but instead challenges his students to discover the truth through asking direct questions, citing passages from the classics, and using analogies ( Analects 7. 8 ).
Analects and disciples
The Analects records 22 names that are most likely Confucius ' disciples, while the Mencius records 24 names, although it is quite certain that there have been many more disciples whose name were not recorded.
Confucius's teachings were later turned into an elaborate set of rules and practices by his numerous disciples and followers, who organized his teachings into the Analects.
*** The Analects of Confucius, a twenty-chapter work of dialogues between Confucius and his disciples, recorded by later Confucian scholars.
He gathered disciples and searched in vain for a ruler who would adopt his ideals for good governance, but his Analects were written down by followers and have continued to influence education in the East into the modern era.
The Four Books include: the Analects of Confucius, a book of pithy sayings attributed to Confucius and recorded by his disciples ; Mencius, a collection of political dialogues ; the Doctrine of the Mean, a book that teaches the path to Confucian virtue ; and the Great Learning, a book about education, self-cultivation and the Dao.
He had great quickness of natural ability, and appears in the Analects as one of the most forward talkers among the disciples.
Zengzi's disciples are believed to have been among the most important compilers of the Analects of Confucius and other Confucian classics.
Analects and transmitting
Although Confucius claimed that he never invented anything but was only transmitting ancient knowledge ( see Analects VII, 1 ), he did produce a number of new ideas.
Although Confucius claimed that he never invented anything but was only transmitting ancient knowledge ( see Analects VII, 1 ), he did produce a number of new ideas.
Analects and old
According to the Han dynasty scholar Huan Tan, the old text version had four hundred characters different from the Lu version ( from which the received text of the Analects is mostly based ), and it seriously differed from the Lu version in twenty-seven places.
No complete copies of either the Lu version, the Qi version, or the old text version of the Analects exist today, though fragments of the old text version were discovered at Dunhuang.
Before the late twentieth century the oldest existing copy of the Analects known to scholars was found in the " Stone Classics of the Xinping Era ", a copy of the Confucian classics written in stone in the old Eastern Han dynasty capital of Luoyang around 175 AD.
Scholars do not agree about whether either the Dingzhou Analects or the Pyongyang Analects represent the Lu version, the Qi version, the old text version, or a different version that was independent of these three traditions.
Drinking is documented in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles, in art history, in Greek literature as old as Homer, and in Confucius ’ s Analects.
Analects and set
Claims that he started his education as late as fifteen may also be an oblique literary reference to Confucius ’ own statement in Lunyu ( Analects ) 2. 4 that, " At fifteen, I set my heart on learning.
Analects and texts
In time, their writings, together with the Analects and other core texts came to constitute the philosophical corpus of Confucianism.
By the early Han dynasty the Analects was considered merely a " commentary " on the Five Classics, but the status of the Analects grew to be one of the central texts of Confucianism by the end of that dynasty.
Because no texts dated earlier than about 50 BC have been discovered, and because the Analects was not referred to by name in any existing source before the early Han dynasty, some scholars have proposed dates as late as 140 BC for the text's compilation.
During most of the Han period the Analects was not considered one of the principal texts of Confucianism.
The status of the Analects as one of the central texts of Confucianism continued to grow until the late Song dynasty ( 960-1279 ), when it was identified and promoted as one of the Four Books by Zhu Xi and generally accepted as being more insightful than the older Five Classics.
Analects and called
Unlike the aphoristic style of the Analects and Mencius, Xunzi was a more rigorous thinker and wrote elaborately argued essays, which were collected into the book called Xunzi.
Analects and Five
During the late Song dynasty ( 960-1279 ) the importance of the Analects as a philosophy work was raised above that of the older Five Classics, and it was recognized as one of the " Four Books ".
The Analects, during Han Wudi's reign, was considered secondary because it was considered only a collection of Confucius ' oral " commentary " ( zhuan ) on the Five Classics.
The political importance and popularity of Confucius and Confucianism grew throughout the Han dynasty, and by the Eastern Han the Analects was widely read by schoolchildren and anyone aspiring to literacy, and was usually read before the Five Classics themselves.
The growing importance of the Analects within Confucianism was recognized during the Eastern Han when the Five Classics was expanded to the " Seven Classics ": the Five Classics plus the Analects and the Classic of Filial Piety.
Analects and Classics
* Chinese Classics ( James Legge's translations of the Analects of Confucius, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Works of Mencius and the Tao Te Ching )
Wilson's work also examined the earliest Japanese writings in the 8th century: the Kojiki, Shoku Nihongi, the Kokin Wakashū, Konjaku Monogatari, and the Heike Monogatari, as well as the Chinese Classics ( the Analects, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, and the Mencius ).
* The Chinese Classics: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, the Doctrine of the Mean, the Works of Mencius ( reprint ), Oriental Book Store, ISBN 0-89986-353-1
Analects and .
Go is also mentioned in the Analects of Confucius ( c. 5th century BC ).
The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.
( Analects XII, 11, trans.
( Analects XIII, 3, tr.
* Confucian Analects ( 1893 ) Translated by James Legge.
* The Analects of Confucius ( 1915 ; rpr.
* The Analects of Confucius ( New York: W. W. Norton, 1997 ).
The Analects stress the importance of ritual, but also the importance of ' ren ', which loosely translates as ' human-heartedness, Confucianism, along with Legalism, is responsible for creating the world ’ s first meritocracy, which holds that one's status should be determined by education and character rather than ancestry, wealth, or friendship.
Confucianism is a philosophical school developed from the teachings of the sage collected in the Analects of Confucius.
The Analects of Confucius.
::::::: Analects X. 11 ( tr.
::::::: Analects XV. 24, tr.
Confucius: Analects — With Selections from Traditional Commentaries.
Confucius and the Analects: New Essays.
0.414 seconds.