Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
Author: last_name: Confucius 孔子
last_name: Zengzi 子輿
last_name: Zisi 子思
Language: English
Year: 1861

The Great Learning (Traditional Chinese: 大學, Simplified: 大学, Pinyin: Dàxué, Korean: 대학, Japanese: 大学, Vietnamese: Đại Học) is one of the Four Books of Confucianism (Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Analects, Mencius). The book consists of a short main text attributed to Confucius (孔子) and ten commentary chapters attributed to his disciple Zengzi (曾子). This translation also includes interspersed notes by the 12th-century philosopher Zhu Xi (朱熹). Zhu Xi's master, Cheng Yi (程颐), says, "The Gre