Confucius

Author : Michael Schuman
Publisher : Civitas Books
ISBN 13 : 046502551X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius written by Michael Schuman and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confucius is perhaps the most important philosopher in history. Today, his teachings shape the daily lives of more than 1.6 billion people. Throughout East Asia, Confucius’s influence can be seen in everything from business practices and family relationships to educational standards and government policies. Even as western ideas from Christianity to Communism have bombarded the region, Confucius’s doctrine has endured as the foundation of East Asian culture. It is impossible to understand East Asia, journalist Michael Schuman demonstrates, without first engaging with Confucius and his vast legacy. Confucius created a worldview that is in many respects distinct from, and in conflict with, Western culture. As Schuman shows, the way that East Asian companies are managed, how family members interact with each other, and how governments see their role in society all differ from the norm in the West due to Confucius’s lasting impact. Confucius has been credited with giving East Asia an advantage in today’s world, by instilling its people with a devotion to learning, and propelling the region’s economic progress. Still, the sage has also been highly controversial. For the past 100 years, East Asians have questioned if the region can become truly modern while Confucius remains so entrenched in society. He has been criticized for causing the inequality of women, promoting authoritarian regimes, and suppressing human rights. Despite these debates, East Asians today are turning to Confucius to help them solve the ills of modern life more than they have in a century. As a wealthy and increasingly powerful Asia rises on the world stage, Confucius, too, will command a more prominent place in global culture. Touching on philosophy, history, and current affairs, Confucius tells the vivid, dramatic story of the enigmatic philosopher whose ideas remain at the heart of East Asian civilization.

Author : Lothar von Falkenhausen
Publisher : Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
ISBN 13 : 1938770455
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius (1000-250 BC) written by Lothar von Falkenhausen and published by Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press. This book was released on 2006-12-31 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Society for American Archaeology Book Award Chinese Society in the Age of Confucius is based on the most up-to-date archaeological discoveries. It introduces new data, as well as new ways to think about them - modes of analysis that, while familiar to archaeological practitioners in the West and in Japan, are herein applied to evidence from the Chinese Bronze Age for the first time. The treatment of social stratification, clan and lineage organisation, as well as gender and ethnic differences will be of interest to those involved in the general or comparative analysis of grand themes in the Social Sciences.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classics of Confucius written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yu Dan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416596569
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius from the Heart written by Yu Dan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an introduction to Confucius' work "The Analects," discussing how the Chinese philosopher's advice for achieving inner spiritual harmony and peace can be applied to everyday situations in modern life.

Author : Michael Nylan
Publisher : Doubleday Religion
ISBN 13 : 9780385510691
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lives of Confucius written by Michael Nylan and published by Doubleday Religion. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profound influence of Confucius across the ages--his teachings of personal and government morality, justice, and appropriateness in social relationships--is the subject of this unique history.

Author : David L. Hall
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887063770
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Through Confucius written by David L. Hall and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1987-10-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Through Confucius critically interprets the conceptual structure underlying Confucius' philosophical reflections. It also investigates "thinking," or "philosophy" from the perspective of Confucius. That authors suggest that an examination of Chinese philosophy may provide an alternative definition of philosophy that can be used to address some of the pressing issues of the Western cultural tradition.

Author : George Marsh Frederickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Image in the White Mind written by George Marsh Frederickson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Epiphanius Epiphanius Wilson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494400729
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Confucius written by Epiphanius Epiphanius Wilson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strangest figure that meets us in the annals of Oriental thought is that of Confucius. To the popular mind he is the founder of a religion, and yet he has nothing in common with the great religious teachers of the East. We think of Siddartha, the founder of Buddhism, as the very impersonation of romantic asceticism, enthusiastic self-sacrifice, and faith in the things that are invisible. Zoroaster is the friend of God, talking face to face with the Almighty, and drinking wisdom and knowledge from the lips of Omniscience. Mohammed is represented as snatched up into heaven, where he receives the Divine communication which he is bidden to propagate with fire and sword throughout the world. These great teachers lived in an atmosphere of the supernatural. They spoke with the authority of inspired prophets. They brought the unseen world close to the minds of their disciples. They spoke positively of immortality, of reward or punishment beyond the grave. The present life they despised, the future was to them everything in its promised satisfaction. The teachings of Confucius were of a very different sort. Throughout his whole writings he has not even mentioned the name of God. He declined to discuss the question of immortality. When he was asked about spiritual beings, he remarked, "If we cannot even know men, how can we know spirits?"

Author : Demi
Publisher : Shen's Books
ISBN 13 : 9781643796857
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Confucius: Great Teacher of China written by Demi and published by Shen's Books. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated biography of a man whose philosophy shaped the course of Chinese history: the great teacher Confucius.

Author : Annping Chin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416552634
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authentic Confucius written by Annping Chin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame,Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the most reliable Chinese texts in her quest to sort out what is really known about Confucius from the reconstructions and the guesswork that muddled his memory. Chin skillfully illuminates the political and social climate in which Confucius lived. She explains how Confucius made the transition from court advisor to wanderer, and how he reluctantly became a professional teacher as he refined his judgment of human character and composed his vision of a moral political order. The result is an absorbing and original book that shows how Confucius lived and thought: his habits and inclinations, his relation to the people of the time, his work as a teacher and as a counselor, his worries about the world and the generations to come. In this book, Chin brings the historical Confucius within our reach, so that he can lead us into his idea of the moral and to his teachings on family and politics, culture and learning. The Authentic Confucius is a masterful account of the life and intellectual development of a thinker whose presence remains a powerful force today.