The Analects (Lun Yu) is a famous book from Confucius (Kungtse). I love it but I think it isn’t the final answer to everything. I understand why taoists laugh about him but I appreciate his rigid morals.

  • PeterLinuxerOP
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    2 years ago

    Unfortunately I don’t understand Chinese. I have for example trouble with the 4 different intonations of a syllable (rising, falling etc.).

    I have read the Analects in German both translated from James Legge’s English text and from Richard Wilhelm. Both have its strength and weaknesses.

    And yes, Richard Wilhelm’s Tao Te King is not very taoistic in some aspects. He uses terms from concucianism and/or christianity. He uses terms like sense, meaning and law where the original text probably meant way, flow, nature.