Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung: The Highest Order of Cultivation AND On the Practice of the Mean (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140447849 ISBN 13: 9780140447842

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

Set alongside The Analects and Mencius, these two texts make up the 'Four Books' of Chinese Confucian tradition. Their depiction of the 'Way of Great Learning' focuses on the moral tenets of Confucian thinking, establishing a universal framework that links individuals with the cosmos. By drawing together key ethical and philophical, and metaphysical issues, the essays deal with the individual's development of moral character. They have long occupied a central position in the educational and political infrastructure of China, Korea and Japan, and their influence and popularity continues to grow, in the East and in the West.

About this title

About the Author:

ANDREW PLAKS is Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University. He has published widely on Chinese philosophy and religion. XINZHONG YAO is Professor of Religion & Ethics at the University of Wales, Lampeter.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140447849
• ISBN 13: 9780140447842
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176
• Editor: Plaks Andrew