![]() Such attitudes are encouraged by a history of racist and distorting stereotypes of aged sages spouting cryptic lines of ‘Oriental wisdom’.Īddressing the different and difficult literary style of Analects is a crucial first start to its philosophical study. ![]() In place of crisp definitions, arguments, and replies to criticisms, one finds anecdotes, snippets of conversations, and descriptions of what might seem trivialities – like how Confucius liked to straighten his mat! Many therefore find Analects dull, puzzling, strange, cryptic, frustrating or – worse – as a pseudo-philosophical text empty of any genuine moral insight. On a first reading – and a second and third – Analects does not always seem to Western readers like a philosophical work. Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Asian / Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Literature, Metaphilosophy.Amy Olberding, ‘It’s not them, it’s you: A case study concerning the exclusion of non-Western philosophy’, Comparative Philosophy 6.2 (2015): 14-34.Joel Kupperman, Classic Asian Philosophy, ch. ![]()
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