A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects [electronic resource] /
Rosemont, H.author.
This companion is not intended as another interpretation of the ancient text, but rather as an aid for contemporary students to develop their own interpretive reading of it, in the hope of thereby aiding them in the search for meaning, purpose, and service in their own lives - as seventy-three generations of Chinese have done.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 What Does It Mean to Be a Confucian?; 2 Approaching the Analects: Is It a Book?; 3 How Do You Spell Chinese?; 4 The Language of the Analects; 5 Terms, Concepts and Concept-Clusters; 6 The Students; 7 The Master; 8 On Knowing; 9 Reading the Analects: Is What It Says True?; 10 Roles, Families and Society; 11 Ancestor Veneration; 12 Rituals (the Li) and Spiritual Cultivation; 13 Summary and Suggestions; Appendix I: Wade-Giles-Pinyin Conversion Table; Appendix II: Concordance of Key Philosophical Terms
Appendix III: Student Finding ListAppendix IV: A Bibliographical Essay
"Palgrave pivot".
Includes bibliographical references.
This companion is not intended as another interpretation of the ancient text, but rather as an aid for contemporary students to develop their own interpretive reading of it, in the hope of thereby aiding them in the search for meaning, purpose, and service in their own lives - as seventy-three generations of Chinese have done.
Philosophy, Asian.
Ethnology-Asia.
Religion.
Religion-History.
Asia-History.
Religions.
Non-Western Philosophy.
Asian Culture.
Religious Studies, general.
History of Religion.
Asian History.
Comparative Religion.