Books That Matter: The Analects of Confucius

How the Analects Is Organized

Educational Dec 9, 2016 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E4: The structure of the Analects offers a helpful way in which to approach and understand the text's deeper meanings. Break down Confucius's book into its "chapters" (juan), the scattered nature of its tiny nuggets of knowledge ("analects"), and the generations of historical commentary winding among these approximately 500 individual sayings.

Educational Dec 9, 2016 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

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Released: 2016
Run Time: 29 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.