Are the book of songs or analects closer to primary source… david keightley’s definition
of a primary source…
What does “Confucian” mean…
Apparently the government of china is creating Confucian institutes… for the study of
Chinese…
In the cultural revolution there was a big anti-confucius campaign…
A lot of modern Chinese scholars use Confucian to mean traditional… It is best to tie it to
the analects…
It seems a lot like reading a whole bunch of fortune cookie fortunes… you may think that
there is no main point…
Valerie thinks this: the analects is a very malleable texts and can be interpreted in a lot of
ways…
There is a real Confucius person… he lived 550 to 479 bc… but it is sketchy as to how
much we can really know about Confucius the man…
Is it a philosophy or a religion… the first follow up question is what is what… religion
involves supernatural??? The analects don’t really talk about that…
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- Fall '07
- ValerieHansen
- Confucianism, Tang Dynasty, NATO, Chinese philosophy, Analects
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