author - "James Legge"
lly grow up.Filial piety and fraternal submission!-- are they not the root ofall benevolent actions?'CHAP. III. The Master said, 'Fine words and aninsinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.'CHAP. IV. The philosopher Tsang said, 'I daily examinemyself on three points:-- whether, in transacting business forothers, I may have been not faithful;-- whether, in intercoursewith friends, I may have been not sincere;-- whether I mayhave not mastered and practised the instructions of
attributed to Confucius. But much of the Li Chi is from later hands. Of the Yi, the Shu, and the Shih, it is only in the first that we find additions attributed to the philosopher himself, in the shape of appendixes. The Ch'un Ch'iu is the only one of the five Ching which can, with an approximation to correctness, be described as of his own 'making.'1 ¤¸g. 2 ¥|®Ñ. 3 ©ö¸g. 4 ®Ñ¸g. 5 ¸Ö¸g. 6 §°O. 7 ¬K¬î. 'The Four Books' is an abbreviation for 'The Books of the Four Philosophers [1].' The first
opher of it. The third is the Chung Yung [5], or 'Doctrine of the Mean,' as the name has often been translated, though it would be better to render it, as in the present edition, by 'The State of Equilibrium and Harmony.' Its composition is ascribed to K'ung Chi [6], the grandson of Confucius. He is the philosopher of it. The fourth contains the works of Mencius.3. This arrangement of the Classical Books, which is commonly supposed to have originated with the scholars of the Sung dynasty, is
lly grow up.Filial piety and fraternal submission!-- are they not the root ofall benevolent actions?'CHAP. III. The Master said, 'Fine words and aninsinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.'CHAP. IV. The philosopher Tsang said, 'I daily examinemyself on three points:-- whether, in transacting business forothers, I may have been not faithful;-- whether, in intercoursewith friends, I may have been not sincere;-- whether I mayhave not mastered and practised the instructions of
attributed to Confucius. But much of the Li Chi is from later hands. Of the Yi, the Shu, and the Shih, it is only in the first that we find additions attributed to the philosopher himself, in the shape of appendixes. The Ch'un Ch'iu is the only one of the five Ching which can, with an approximation to correctness, be described as of his own 'making.'1 ¤¸g. 2 ¥|®Ñ. 3 ©ö¸g. 4 ®Ñ¸g. 5 ¸Ö¸g. 6 §°O. 7 ¬K¬î. 'The Four Books' is an abbreviation for 'The Books of the Four Philosophers [1].' The first
opher of it. The third is the Chung Yung [5], or 'Doctrine of the Mean,' as the name has often been translated, though it would be better to render it, as in the present edition, by 'The State of Equilibrium and Harmony.' Its composition is ascribed to K'ung Chi [6], the grandson of Confucius. He is the philosopher of it. The fourth contains the works of Mencius.3. This arrangement of the Classical Books, which is commonly supposed to have originated with the scholars of the Sung dynasty, is