Books that matter : the Analects of Confucius
Format:
Video disc
Title:
Books that matter : the Analects of Confucius
Other title(s):
Analects of Confucius
ISBN:
9781629973562
Publication:
Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2016]
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (approximately 12 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (xxii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
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General Note:
Cataloged from container.
Course no. 4642.
Contains 24 lectures, 30 min. per lecture.
Contents:
Disc 1. The hidden teaching dynamic of the Analects -- The Analects: a bird's-eye biew -- The man we call Confucius -- How the Analects is organized -- The provenance of the Analects -- The Analects in miniature.
Disc 2. Learning to read the Analects -- Confucius's students: Zai Wo and Yan Hui -- Confucius's students: Zilu and Zigong -- Confucius on the purpose of learning -- Filial devotion in the Analects -- Confucius on the value of remonstrance.
Disc 3. The exemplary person in the Analects -- Confucius's ideal: consummate conduct -- Confucius on cultivating the social self -- Ritual conduct in the Analects -- Confucius on embodied ritual and music -- The Analects on effective rule.
Disc 4. Mencius: the next confucian sage -- Confucius's Daoist and legalist critics -- State Confucianism and Buddhism -- Sima Guang and the Confucian revival -- Neo-Confucianism and the political order -- Confucius's comeback in a global world.
Summary:
Compiled centuries before the birth of Jesus, the Analects of Confucius is anything but dry ancient philosophy. Many of its passages hold the same power as any great Socratic dialogue. Which makes trying to get to the heart of the Analects-and its importance-a challenging and undeniably exciting intellectual pursuit.
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