Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean - 1971

"Central to the study of Chinese civilization at its widest extension is the thought of the great sage K'ung, usually known in the West by the Latinized form of his name, Confucius. His works form the core of more than two thousand years of Oriental civilization, and even today, when he has been officially discarded, his thought remains important for understanding the present as well as the past. Yet Confucius is the property of not only the Orientalists: his ideas stood behind much of the rational social thought of the European Enlightenment, as great philosophers from Leibniz on seized with delight "the perfect ethic without supernaturalism," that China offered them. The present edition of the wisdom of Confucius is certainly the best edition ever prepared in the West. The result of many years of study in China by the great Sinologist James Legge, it contains the entire Chinese text of the *Analects* (or sayings) of Confucius in large, readable characters and beneath this Legge's full translation, which has been accepted as the definitive, standard English version. The book also includes *The Great Learning* and *The Doctrine of the Mean*..." - Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean - Confucius Printed 1971, Dover Publications, Inc. Softcover. Approx 5.5x8.5in. 503pp. Some wear to spine, covers. In good vintage condition.