ANLECTS CONFUCIUS V173 - Softcover

Waley, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 0394701739 ISBN 13: 9780394701738

Publisher: Vintage, 1960

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The Analects are a collection of Confucius’s sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one’s fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of virtue should be every individual’s supreme goal. And, while following the Way, or the truth, might not result in immediate or material gain, Confucius showed that it could nevertheless bring its own powerful and lasting spiritual rewards.

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" All Mr. Waley's previous Oriental work has been acclaimed and treasured; and this fresh rendering of the Analects may come to be accepted as his richest gift: fresh in time and in treatment."
-- The Listener

"All Mr. Waley's previous Oriental work has been acclaimed and treasured; and this fresh rendering of the Analects may come to be accepted as his richest gift: fresh in time and in treatment."
-- The Listener

"This fresh rendering of the Analects may come to be accepted as [Waley's] richest gift: fresh in time and in treatment." --The Listener

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'The Analects of Confucius' is one of the central books of Chinese literature and Chinese thought; memorized and studied for many centuries, it has been certainly one of the most influential books in world history. There are many translations of this rewarding but difficult work. Arthur Waley--the translator of the Tale of Genji, of a vast body of Chinese poetry, and of many other classics of Oriental literature and thought--brings to this translation his great gifts as a scholar and a writer, and has produced what is without question the best version in English of the Analects.

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