Dao Companion to the Analects (Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy Book 4)

This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic__,__ the __Analects__. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to the text and the signal ideas ascribed to its protagonist, Confucius. The volume opens with chapters that reflect the latest scholarship on the disputed origins of the text and an overview of the broad commentarial tradition it generated. These are followed by chapters that individually explore key areas of the text’s philosophical landscape, articulating both the sense of concepts such as __ren__, __li__, and __xiao__ as well as their place in the wider space of the text. A final section addresses prominent interpretive challenges and scholarly disputes in reading the __Analects__, evaluating, for example, the alignment between the __Analects__ and contemporary moral theory and the contested nature of its religious sensibility. __Dao Companion to the__ Analects offers a comprehensive and complete survey of the text's philosophical idiom and themes, as well as its history and some of the liveliest current debates surrounding it. This book is an ideal resource for both researchers and advanced students interested in gaining greater insight into one of the earliest and most influential Confucian classics. This volume surveys the major philosophical concepts, arguments, and commitments of the Confucian classic, the Analects. In thematically organized chapters, leading scholars provide a detailed, scholarly introduction to the text and the signal ideas ascribed to its protagonist, Confucius. The volume opens with chapters that reflect the latest scholarship on the disputed origins of the text and an overview of the broad commentarial tradition it generated. These are followed by chapters that individually explore key areas of the text's philosophical landscape, articulating both the sense of concepts such as ren, li, and xiao as well as their place in the wider space of the text. A final section addresses prominent interpretive challenges and scholarly disputes in reading the Analects, evaluating, for example, the alignment between the Analects and contemporary moral theory and the contested nature of its religious sensibility. This book offers a comprehensive and complete survey of the text's philosophical idiom and themes, as well as its history and some of the liveliest current debates surrounding it. This book is an ideal resource for both researchers and advanced students interested in gaining greater insight into one of the earliest and most influential Confucian classics Front Matter....Pages i-vi Introduction....Pages 1-17 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 History and Formation of the Analects ....Pages 21-36 The Commentarial Tradition....Pages 37-53 Confucius and His Community....Pages 55-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Ren 仁: An Exemplary Life....Pages 83-94 Ritual and Rightness in the Analects ....Pages 95-116 Family Reverence ( xiao 孝) in the Analects : Confucian Role Ethics and the Dynamics of Intergenerational Transmission....Pages 117-136 Language and Ethics in the Analects ....Pages 137-158 Uprightness, Indirection, Transparency....Pages 159-170 Cultivating the Self in Concert with Others....Pages 171-197 Perspectives on Moral Failure in the Analects ....Pages 199-221 Front Matter....Pages 223-223 The Analects and Moral Theory....Pages 225-257 Religious Thought and Practice in the Analects ....Pages 259-291 The Analects and Forms of Governance....Pages 293-310 Why Care? A Feminist Re-appropriation of Confucian Xiao 孝....Pages 311-334 Balancing Conservatism and Innovation: The Pragmatic Analects ....Pages 335-354 Back Matter....Pages 355-369