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Title: The Wisdom of Confucius by Confucius ISBN: 0-8065-2287-9 Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Where Is The Wisdom?
Comment: I bought this book thinking I'd get a huge list of all of the wisdom of Confucius. But that was the least of what I got. I'm sure there is some wisdome in this book somewhere but the conversation and wording is terrible. It took me 10 minutes read a page, and read again, because I truly had no idea what was going on. Every once in a while, you will come across a straightforward statement that really means something. I'm thinking that this translation does a direct translation to English and it just doesn't fit together well.
I think it may be my own intelligence that keeps me from following the wording of this book. Nothing sticks out as great wisdom to me. There is a section that has poems, which are really good, but they don't show me great wisdom. I believe that this book is only for advanced readers.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent book on the "wisdom" of Confucius
Comment: This is a very good book on the "wisdom" of Confucius, but not the word-by-word translation of the original Confucius text. Some readers maybe misunderstood in the first place when they read this book. Chinese philosophy is sometimes hard to be really understood at first because it's very deep and profound. Wisdom is not a practical skill that people can learn or master quickly, but something can only be gradually experienced and understood over time.
Rating: 5
Summary: A "One Book" Survey of Confucius
Comment: I found this book readable and surprisingly useful. True, the Analects are not complete but have been excerpted. The book cannot present more than a sampling of Confucius' writings for obvious limitations of space. Merits of the book include its readability, with a long, discursive essay and some translations provided by the celebrated scholar Lin Yutang. The book also contains a famous Chinese biography of Confucius, plus a few selections from the writings of Confucius's most influencial disciples-- some of these contemporary with Confucius and some from later times.
I could not help noticing prior reviews that deal harshly with the book. Some of the criticism will not be meaningful to the nonscholarly reader, who, for example, would not be offended that the "original numbering" of the Analects has been abandoned.
Selection of the writings has been most judicious. For example, the book contains "On the Great Learning," and "On Education." To obtain all these well-chosen sample writings of Confucius in individual editions rather than an anthology such as this would require an entire shelf of books.
This readable, clean edition will be excellent for the thoughtful person who wants to explore across the breadth of Confucius's thought. And despite biting criticism in the other reviews, I found Professor Lin's discussions of Confucius's life, thought, and cultural impact to be most helpful.
The book is also a handsome little volume, and with a quality binding. One is proud to place it in one's library.
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Title: The Importance of Living by Yutang Lin, Lin Yutang ISBN: 0688163521 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Confucius: The Analects by Confucius ISBN: 0140443487 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 03 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: My Country and My People by Yutang Lin ISBN: 9971642050 Publisher: Halcyon House Pub. Date: 01 January, 1938 |
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