The Four Books I: Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean (Legge)
- Language:
- English
- Translation:
- James Legge
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Recorded or compiled by others
- Condition of the text:
- No scanning noise detected (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand)
- Extent:
- ~40,000 words · 190 passages
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- APAConfucius. (n.d.). The Four Books I: Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean (Legge) (James Legge, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/confucius/the-four-books-i-analects-great-learning-doctrine-of-the-mean-legge
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What it is about
The Four Books in James Legge's translation: Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean.
Context and history
Legge (1815–1897) is the translator who brought the Chinese classics into Europe, and his version is still the English reference. This is the fullest of the catalogue's Confucius volumes. **The catalogue also holds the Chinese original of the Analects**, which is what should be cited.
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temple, asked about everything. Some one said, 'Who will say that the son of the man of Tsau knows the rules of propriety! He has entered the grand temple and asks about everything.' The Master heard the remark, and said, 'This is a rule of propriety.' CHAP. XVI. The Master said, 'In archery it is not going through the leather which is the principal thing;-- because people's strength is not equal. This was the old way.' 【十七章】【一節】子貢欲去告朔之餼羊。【二節】子曰、賜也、爾愛其羊、 我愛其禮。 【十八章】子曰、事君盡禮、人以為諂也。 【十九章】【一節】定公問君使臣、臣事君、如之何。孔子對曰、君使臣以 禮、臣事君以忠。 【二十章】子曰、關睢樂而不淫、哀而不傷。 CHAP. XVII. 1. Tsze-kung wished to do away with the offering of a sheep connected with the inauguration of the first day of each month. 2. The Master said, 'Ts'ze, you love the sheep; I love the ceremony.' CHAP. XVII. The Master said, 'The full observance of the rules of propriety in serving one's prince is accounted by people to be flattery.' CHAP. XIX. The Duke Ting asked how a prince should employ his ministers, and how ministers should serve their prince. Confucius replied, 'A prince should employ his minister according to according to the rules of propriety; ministers should serve their prince with faithfulness.' CHAP. XX. The Master said, 'The Kwan Tsu is expressive of enjoyment without being licentious, and of grief without being hurtfully excessive.'
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