The Analects

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Ethical cultivation, relationships and ritual in the Analects and its interpretive traditions. Compare translations before assuming a term has a single English equivalent.

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  • How can a ritual help cultivate good judgment?

    coreIntroduction or preface and opening chapter. Record the edition and translator before reading.

    Ethical cultivation, relationships and ritual in the Analects and its interpretive traditions. Compare translations before assuming a term has a single English equivalent.

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Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

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