Focusing the Familiar by Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall, David ... - 9780824824785

Focusing the FamiliarA Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong\nAuthor(s): Roger T. Ames, David L. Hall, David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Hawai'i Press, United States\nImprint: University of Hawai'i Press\nISBN-13: 9780824824785, 978-0824824785\nSynopsis\nThe Zhongyong-translated here as Focusing the Familiar -has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more than two millennia and is one of Confucianism's most sacred and seminal texts. It achieved truly canonical preeminence when it became one of the Four Books compiled and annotated by the Southern Song dynasty philosopher Zhu Xi [tel]. Within the compass of world literature, the influence of these books (Analects of Confucius, Great Learning, Zhongyong, and Mencius) on the Sinitic world of East Asia has been no less than the Bible and the Qu'ran on Western civilization.\n\nWith this new translation David Hall and Roger Ames provide a distinctly philosophical i.