No Talk in Bed
Owen Flanagan: Confucius, 2 April 1998
The Analects of Confucius
translated by Simon Leys.
Norton, 224 pp., £9.95, February 1998,0 393 31699 8 Show More
translated by Simon Leys.
Norton, 224 pp., £9.95, February 1998,
The Analects of Confucius
translated by Chichung Huang.
Oxford, 224 pp., £35, October 1997,0 19 506157 8 Show More
translated by Chichung Huang.
Oxford, 224 pp., £35, October 1997,
“... According to the best estimates, Confucius lived from 551 to 479 BCE. The Analects is the name given to the short book of his wisdom, consisting of proverbs, maxims, memorable advice, short parables and keen observations about how best to live. The text is the result of an editing and compilation process involving two generations of Chinese disciples, and completed around 400 BCE, possibly in the same year that Socrates met his end in Athens ... ”