Word: confucius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Order and Disorder. What Western readers may get from The Wisdom of Confucius, and what Chinese do not emphasize, is the sense of constant hazard in Confucius' search for a wise sovereign...
...principles of order which he maintained and whose ramifications reached into all aspects of life made him particularly vulnerable in a civilization plunging into disorder; their very existence made them counterrevolutionary. Confucius held that a Confucian should...
...Secret Everywhere. Readers who can see the Chinese truth beyond the English screen of translation may find in the 265 pages of The Wisdom of Confucius concentrated material for a lifetime of study. Composed at the time of Pythagoras (582-507 B.C.), Confucius' doctrine of the moral law in The Order of Things (a Confucian expression) has the celestial grandeur and poetry of Lucretius...
...moral law; but in its utmost reaches there is something which even the wisest and holiest of men can not understand. . . . The moral man finds the moral law beginning in the relation between man and woman, but ending in the vast reaches of the universe." The practical wisdom of Confucius' prescription for a good ruler, "Be a good son and brother," was a part of his simple and infinitely varied ordering of society into five human relationships: sovereign and subject, parent and child, husband and wife, older brother and younger brother, friend and friend...
...Confucius' discovery that music is an infallible indication of the state of a country's moral and political health -"when the heart's chord of sorrow is touched, the sounds produced are sombre and forlorn"-has carried its ever-new message across the centuries to the turbulent days of the Horst Wessel song...