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Sinopsis
Lunyu, or The Analects of Confucius, has
probably exercised a greater influence on the history and culture of the Chinese
people than any other work in the Chinese language. Not only has it shaped the
thought and customs of China over many centuries, but it has played a key role
in the development of other countries that were within the Chinese cultural
sphere, such as Korea, Japan, and, later, Vietnam.
Readers encountering the text for the first time might
wonder how this rather brief collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes
could have been so influential. The text, probably compiled in stages some time
during the fourth century B.C.E., was at first only one of many
philosophical works that embodied the teachings of this or that school of early
Chinese thought. The followers of the teachings of Confucius were referred to
collectively as the Ru school, which denotes persons who devote
themselves to learning and the peaceful arts (as opposed to martial
matters).
Some centuries later, when Emperor Wu (r. 141–87
B.C.E.) of the Han dynasty declared Confucianism the official
doctrine of the state, the Analects and other texts associated with
Confucius assumed enormous importance. They were regarded as repositories of
knowledge of how the empire had been governed in the model eras of antiquity and
how the Chinese government system, and society as a whole, should be ordered. In
still later centuries, the Analects was treated as a beginning text in
the study of classical Chinese, to be committed to memory and, when students
were more advanced, studied exhaustively and with its lessons examined in
depth.
Content
- INTRODUCTION
- Book One
- Book Two
- Book Three
- Book Four
- Book Five
- Book Six
- Book Seven
- Book Eight
- Book Nine
- Book Ten
- Book Eleven
- Book Twelve
- Book Thirteen
- Book Fourteen
- Book Fifteen
- Book Sixteen
- Book Seventeen
- Book Eighteen
- Book Nineteen
- Book Twenty
