{"product_id":"the-analects-isbn-9780375412042","title":"The Analects","description":"\u003cp\u003eConfucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between human beings and their environment? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this classic translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Analects\u003c\/i\u003e by Arthur Waley, the questions Confucius addressed two and a half millennia ago remain as relevant as ever.\u003c\/p\u003eConfucius [551-479 BC], though of noble descent, was born in humble circumstances. He believed that politics is only an extension of morals, and spent ten years travelling through the various states of China spreading his ideas. When he realised that there was no way of converting the feudal rulers to his way of thinking he returned to Lu and spent the rest of his life there teaching his pupils. D.C Lau has held a number of professorships in the field of Chinese language and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur Waley (1889-1966) is highly regarded for his many translations of Chinese  and Japanese literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Allan teaches classical Chinese and Chinese philosophy  at Dartmouth College.\u003ci\u003efrom Book IV\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1  The Master said, It is Goodness that gives to a neighborhood its  beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the Good–how  can he be accorded the name of wise?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2  The Master said, Without Goodness a man\u003cbr\u003eCannot  for long endure adversity,\u003cbr\u003e Cannot for long enjoy prosperity.\u003cbr\u003e The Good Man rests content  with Goodness; he that is merely wise pursues Goodness in the belief that it pays  to do so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3,4  Of the adage “Only a Good Man knows how to like people, knows how  to dislike them,” the Master said, He whose heart is in the smallest degree set upon  Goodness will dislike no one.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5  Wealth and rank are what every man desires; but  if they can only be retained to the detriment of the Way he professes, he must relinquish  them. Poverty and obscurity are what every man detests; but if they can only be avoided  to the detriment of the Way he professes, he must accept them. The gentleman who  ever parts company with Goodness does not fulfill that name. Never for a moment does  a gentleman quit the way of Goodness. He is never so harried but that he cleaves  to this; never so tottering but that he cleaves to this.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302716887269,"sku":"NP9780375412042","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375412042.jpg?v=1767738074","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-analects-isbn-9780375412042","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}