Analects (Lunyu 論語) III
Analects (Lunyu 論語) III

Analects (Lunyu 論語) III

Dates
February 25, 2021
Notes

Admiration, exemplarism, and selfhood

PDFs

Required Readings - Primary Text

Passages from the Lunyu (you will have read a bunch of these already). Once again, passages in bold are of greater significance. Passages in (parentheses) are importantly related to the term in question, even though the term does not appear in them:

Junzi (君子) (exemplary person, gentleman, nobleman, etc.) 1.1, 1.2, 1.8, 1.14, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 3.5, 3.7, 3.24, 4.5, 4.10, 4.11, 4.16, 4.24, 5.3, 5.16, 6.4, 6.13, 6.18, 6.26, 6.27, 7.26, 7.31, 7.33, 7.37, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6, 9.6, 9.14, 10.6, 11.1, 11.21, 11.26, 12.4, 12.5, 12.8, 12.15, 12.16, 12.19, 12.24, 13.3, 13.23, 13.25, 13.26, 14.6, 14.23, 14.26, 14.27, 14.28, 14.42, 15.2, 15.7, 15.18, 15.19, 15.20, 15.21, 15.22, 15.23, 15.32, 15.34, 15.37, 16.1, 16.6, 16.7, 16.8, 16.10, 16.13, 17.4, 17.7, 17.21, 17.23, 17.24, 18.7, 18.10, 19.3, 19.4, 19.7, 19.9, 19.10, 19.12, 19.20, 19.21, 19.25, 20.2, 20.3

De 德 (power, potency, excellence, charisma, virtue, etc.) 1.9, 2.1, 2.3, 4.11, 4.25, 6.29, 7.3, 7.6, 7.23, 8.1, 8.20, (9.14), 9.18, 11.3, 12.10, 12.19, 12.21, 13.22, 14.4, 14.5, 14.33, 14.34, 15.4, 15.13, 15.27, 16.1, 16.12, 17.13, 17.14, 18.5, 19.2, 19.11

Ren 仁 (Human-heartedness, humaneness, Goodness, benevolence, etc.) 1.2, 1.3, 1.6, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7, 5.5, 5.8, 5.9, 5.19, 6.7, 6.22, 6.23, 6.26, 6.30, 7.6, 7.15, 7.30, 7.34, 8.2, 8.7, 8.10, 9.1, 9.29, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.20, 12.22, 12.24, 13.12, 13.19, 13.27, 14.1, 14.4, 14.6, 14.16, 14.17, 14.28, 15.9, 15.10, 15.33, 15.35, 15.36, 17.1, 17.6, 17.8, 17.17, 17.21, 18.1, 19.6, 19.15, 19.16, 20.1, 20.2

Xin 信 (Making good on one’s word, trustworthy, having integrity, etc.) 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8, 1.13, 2.22, 5.6, 5.10, 5.26, 5.28, 7.1, 7.25, 8.4, 8.13, 8.16, 9.25, 12.7, 12.10, 12.11, 13.4, 13.20, 14.13, 14.14, 14.31, 15.6, 15.18, 17.6, 17.8, 19.2, 19.10, 20.1

Required Readings - Secondary Literature

Olberding 2012 - Moral exemplars in the Analects - The good person is that (excerpts).pdf878.2KB
Wong 2006 - Relational and autonomous selves.pdf75.8KB