Book Jacket Status Jacketed Confucius is one of the most humane rationaland lucid of moral teachers concerned not with arcane metaphysics but withpractical issu... » 

Book Jacket Status Jacketed Confucius is one of the most humane rationaland lucid of moral teachers concerned not with arcane metaphysics but withpractical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is mostconducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the properrelationship between human beings and their environment? In this classictranslation of The Analects by Arthur Waley the questions Confuciusaddressed two and a half millennia ago remain as relevant as ever. «