THE HEART OF CONFUCIUS tells what all Western readers should know about Confucius and why his teachings are important. They are the teachings that have influenced Chinese life for two and a half millenniums and expressed universal human ideals that have helped to shape civilization.
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THE HEART OF CONFUCIUS tells what all Western readers should know about Confucius and why his teachings are important. They are the teachings that have influenced Chinese life for two and a half millenniums and expressed universal human ideals that have helped to shape civilization.
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Good+ with no dust jacket. 4.875 X 0.5 X 7.875 inches; 160 pages; Ex-Library copy with usual identifiers. Writing only on last blank page. Very Good overall condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No other writing.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
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Good. The format is approximately 4.875 inches by 7.875 inches. 159, [1] pages. Illustrated front cover. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Cover has some wear and soiling and sticker residue. Foreword by Thome H. Fang. A Note on the Illustrations. "What Professor Archie J. Bahm offers in this invaluable book is not a literal translation but a lively, systematic interpretation of the two most basic Confucian classics. Writing for the thinking, inquiring layman rather than the scholar and Orientalist, he at last makes Confucianism meaningful to the West."-from the Foreword by Thomé H. Fang, Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Taiwan. Archie John Bahm (21 August 1907-12 March 1996) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Bahm served as Acting Chair of the University of New Mexico's Department of Philosophy from 1954 to 1955 and again from 1964 to 1965. He was a member of numerous committees to support and promote the exchange of philosophical ideas and organized the Albuquerque Chapter of the Southwestern Regional American Humanist Association in 1954. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto. He was also an organizer, past president, and past secretary-treasurer of the New Mexico Philosophical Society. "This attractive little book tells what all Western readers should know about Confucius and why his teachings are important. They are teachings that have influenced Chinese life for two and a half millenniums and expressed universal human ideals that have helped to shape civilization. Archie Bahm...author of 'The World's Living Religions' as well as other books, has extracted the major important books attributed, directly or indirectly, to Confucius: 'Chung Yung' (rendered as 'Genuine Living') and 'Ta Hsueh' ('Great Wisdom'). Mr. Bahm presents these teachings in a lively, accessible prose, which is embellished with 16th-century woodblock prints from a life of Confucius."-New York Times.
