The Confucian Analects The Great Learning The Doctrine Of The Mean

The Ethics of Confucius and Aristotle

As a comparative study of the virtue ethics of Aristotle and Confucius, this book explores how they each reflect upon human good and virtue out of their respective cultural assumptions, conceptual frameworks, and philosophical perspectives. It does not simply take one side as a framework to understand the other; rather, it takes them as mirrors for each other and seeks to develop new readings and perspectives of both ethics that would be unattainable if each were studied on its own.

The Chinese Classics: Confucian analects, The great learning, and The doctrine of the mean. 2d. ed., rev. 1893.-v.2.The works of Mencius. 2d ed., rev. 1895.-v.3.The shoo king, or The book of historical documents. 1865. 2 v.-v.4.The she king, or The book of poetry. 1871. 2 v.-v.5.The ch'un ts'ew, with The tso chuen. 1872. 2 v

Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung

Ta Hsueh and Chung Yung are two of the central texts of early Chinese thought, encapsulating Confucian philosophy on the Way of moral cultivation and spiritual attainment. Traditionally held to be the work of two of Confucius's closest disciples, the books were compiled in their present form late in the second or first century BCE and have occupied a central position in educational and political life for almost a thousand years throughout the East Asian cultural sphere. The text focus on the connection between internal self-cultivation and the external realisation of one's moral core in the fulfilment of the practical aims of Confucian life: the observance of ritual, the proper conduct of personal relationships, and the grand enterprise of maintaining order in the state and the world.