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A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian AnalectsReading the Analects: Is What It Says True?

A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian Analects: Reading the Analects: Is What It Says True? [In the previous chapter I suggested that a basic function of language as it was employed by Confucius in conversations with his students in the Analects was as “praxis-guiding discourse.” That is to say, he was not so much concerned to convey factual information, or propound a theory, as he was to have his students respond in a particular way to the topic on which he was discoursing or had been asked about. By putting ourselves into the text we can better understand the remark of Zhu Xi quoted in Chapter 2, that when reading, “It is like talking [with the sages] face to face.” Here I want to elaborate on that theme somewhat because of its importance in interacting with the text of the Analects.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Reader’s Companion to the Confucian AnalectsReading the Analects: Is What It Says True?

Rosemont, Henry
Springer Journals — Nov 5, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-45414-3
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36 –39
DOI
10.1057/9781137303394_9
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[In the previous chapter I suggested that a basic function of language as it was employed by Confucius in conversations with his students in the Analects was as “praxis-guiding discourse.” That is to say, he was not so much concerned to convey factual information, or propound a theory, as he was to have his students respond in a particular way to the topic on which he was discoursing or had been asked about. By putting ourselves into the text we can better understand the remark of Zhu Xi quoted in Chapter 2, that when reading, “It is like talking [with the sages] face to face.” Here I want to elaborate on that theme somewhat because of its importance in interacting with the text of the Analects.]

Published: Nov 5, 2015

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