(Download pdf) The Four Books: The Basic Teachings of the Later Confucian Tradition
❀ Daniel K. Gardner ❀
| #366188 in Books | Hackett Pub Co | 2007-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.25 x5.25 x.25l,.50 | File Name: 0872208265 | 192 pages |
||26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.| Great book|By From_Plano_TX|"The Four Books" by Gardner is a valuable book for Americans beginning to study Confucianism. There is a fine and succinct introduction to the historical context of the Four Books. It is hard to find copies of The "Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" in English, but they are both here in their entirety along with abridged versions of||
|Daniel Gardner's The Four Books was perfect for my upper-division lecture course on Late Imperial China, and would also work well in an introductory class on the same period, anything from Song through Qing; or in an introductory week or two on p
In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books--Great Learning, Analects, Mencius, and Maintaining Perfect Balance--have been read and understood by the Chinese since the twelfth century. Selected passages in translation are accompanied by Gardner's comments, which incorporate selections from the commentary and interpretation of the renowned Neo-Confucian thinker, Zhu Xi (1130-1200).
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