Sayings (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) - Softcover

Confucius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853264628 ISBN 13: 9781853264627

Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1996

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Book by Confucius

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No other book in the entire history of the world has exerted a greater influence on a larger number of people over a longer period of time than this slim volume. The spiritual cornerstone of the most populous and oldest living civilization on Earth, the Analects has inspired the Chinese and all the peoples of East Asia with its affirmation of a humanist ethics. As the Gospels are to Jesus, the Analects is the only place where we can encounter the real, living Confucius. In this gem-like translation by Simon Leys, Confucius speaks with clarity and brilliance. He emerges as a man of great passion and many enthusiasms, a man of bold action whose true vocation is politics. Confucius (551-479 B.C.) lived in an age of acute cultural and political crisis. Many of his observations mark a world sinking into violence and barbarity. Unable to obtain the leading political role he sought, he endeavored to reform society and salvage civilization through ethical debate, defining for ages to come the public mission of the intellectual.

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• Verlag: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853264628
• ISBN 13: 9781853264627
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176