Word: confucius
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...teacher who meant so much to the Orient has been misrepresented, parodied and neglected by the part of the West that most needed his teachings. Occidental understanding of Confucius, difficult to come by in any edition, gains in the Modern Library's reprint, as a handsome gift book, of Dr. Lin Yutang's selection of Confucian sayings (The Wisdom of Confucius...
...Dark Ages. What makes Confucius so timely a figure is that he lived in a time of civil war, when a 1500-year-old dynasty was disintegrating, and when the future was beyond man's imagining. He was an adviser of governors, traveling from one small warring province to another, a human divining rod, whose teachings served to reveal the good and the bad in the sovereigns while he tried to find one who would make his principles the guiding policy of the state...
Tall, cheerful, benign, the son of a poor man who died soon after he was born, Confucius (551-478 B.C.) married at 19, fathered a son and two daughters, was put in charge of the granary of Baron Chi of Lu, became superintendent of herds and parks and at 22 began teaching philosophy and history. The sparse facts of his career form a clear pattern climaxing in his brief period of power as chief magistrate of Chung-tu when he was 52 and when, so potent was his example that "he was the idol of the people and flew...
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...