Advice on Reading the Confucian Analects

Some good advice. (Take it till you learn better, or learn to read Chinese.)

[clumsydad]

interesting, analects of Confucius seems to be out of style, of course everything Sino is on the outs here, as goes our fascist and jingoist flows. it is a good topic though in the sense that the main thing our society lacks is a collective set of guiding principles, moral values to underlie our culture. we pretend they are not required for our society, but they direly are, in a way of accepting diverse and pluralistic spiritualities, along the lines of what the German Idealists emphasized, but unfortunately any discussion of the topic seems to lead to polemics on narrow and specific ideologies, as our culture is rather winner take all. ... the student discussion format is rather like Socratic dialogues, and one obvious fact of the axial age of religions is that it was worldwide and diverse, yet two and one-half millennia later we still rather like to ignore this healthy fact and de facto fight over a one true religion. similarly how recently I was thinking that the ancient roman kings, republic and empire internally fought over the basic fact of distribution of resources between rich/poor, patricians/plebians, labor and capital if you will, and how yet that is still the main crux of our societal pains though many do best to distract or divide all away from such a basic awareness. ... it's obvious you've put extensive effort and thought into the analects, i see this video is highly focused on the translation itself. thank you

[Musical-bjfz]

I hate it when people speak more than necessary