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中国先秦诸子的哲学思想、儒道佛三家的哲思妙论至今读来仍充满睿智，予人启迪。这些中国文化的思想精华，对于许多外国人来说也同样充满吸引力。

英文版“中国智慧”丛书面向国外读者，用当代人的视角探索孔子、老子、孙子、孟子、庄子等文化先贤传奇跌宕的人生；用生动的故事和白描的手法，诠释他们的智慧思想；通过中外历史文化纵横比较，表现中国文化的传承以及中国传统文化与西方文化之间的相互影响。

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“中国智慧”丛书包括：《一代宗师—孔子》《亚圣—孟子》《兵圣—孙子》《千年道德经—老子》《天地逍遥游—庄子》。本套丛书的特色，就是突出了古代先贤的智慧思想和当代中国社会的关联性，因此每一个先贤人物读起来都是那样平和亲近。书后附各位先贤经典语录，深入浅出的演绎，非常适合外国人阅读和理解，可作为他们了解中国文化的敲门砖。

《一代宗师——孔子》，向国外读者介绍中国儒家思想的奠基人和全球儒学的“至圣先师”——孔子的生平及其与弟子的经典语录。相传孔子有弟子三千、贤弟子七十二人，孔子曾带领弟子周游列国14年，孔子还是一位古文献整理家，他的思想和学说对后世产生了极其深远的影响。

The pre-Qin Confucian philosophy and Taoism, are full of wisdom, giving modern time people profound inspiration and enlightment. They represent the essence of the Chinese culture.

The Wisdom of China is a series for foreign readers. They tell of the lives and wisdom of ancient sages including Confucius, Lao Tzu, Sun Zi, Menciu and Chuang-tzu. From these readers are expected to the cultural wisdom of the Chinese.

As the books are treated with living stories, readers will feel close to the time sages and find it easy to understand their philosophies. A survey among the potential readers show these books are easy to understand and the best channel to understand a cultural China.

The series books include CONFUCIUS: A Philosopher for the Ages, LAO TZU: The Eternal Tao Te Ching， MENCIUS: A Benevolent Saint for the Ages， SUN TZU: The Ultimate Master of War， ZHUANGZI: Enjoyment of Life in an Untroubled State. For the compilation of these books, the authors went to hometowns of these sages and hit numerous books in library. Many of their contents are available to readers for the first time.

“Criticize and repudiate Confucius!” “Down with Confucius!”—How does Confucius fare in China in the 20th century? Is Confucius a sage or an ordinary person? How was the school of thought of Confucius formed? What is its influence on the world?

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Family Story

Core of Confucian Thought of School

Initiating Private Schools

Traveling Across China

Intellectual Legacy to Future Generations

Fate of Confucianism in Various Dynasties

Influence on Human Civilization

Quotations from Confucius and his Disciples

精彩书摘

Initiating Private Schools

If we take an overall view of Confucius’ life, three clear passions define his 73-year-long life journey: firstly, he pioneered China’s first non-government funded education system; secondly, he led a peripatetic existence with his band of disciples and believers, traveling around the various parts of the vast lands of the Chinese continent; thirdly, after he returned to the Lu State in his late years, he began to sort out and compile the ancient books left behind from previous generations, namely such classics of ancient China as The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Book of Songs and Shang Shu.

A popular Chinese proverb observes: “A man should stand on his own feet at thirty.” That is to say, when a man comes to thirty he should have formed his own opinions. The first to enunciate this idea was Confucius. The great philosopher also advocated what was then a revolutionary idea in the field of education; namely that in education there should be no distinction between classes of men. In other words, everyone in society should enjoy the right to an education.

In civilized society today, everyone is familiar with the word “education.” But some 2,500 years ago, education was the preserve of the aristocrat. In the spring of 522 BC, in a place named Xingtan, Chinese common people for the first time crossed the threshold of a school and stood before their teacher. That teacher was Confucius, a man who believed that education was a fundamental right for all people, rich and poor, high-born and low.

Irrespective of whether you were the son of a common family or of a scholarbureaucrat, Confucius said you could go to school as long as you observed certain formalities These included, for instance, giving the teacher some small remuneration, like a piece of dried meat, and performing a ceremony of formally acknowledging the teacher as your teacher. Once these formalities had been carried out, social distinction melted away and noblemen and peasant became merely students...

前言/序言

Introduction

In the 5th century BC, in Athens, origin of so much that is central to Western civilization, the great philosopher and thinker Plato described in a book an ideal society: a society utterly under the reign of philosophers, in which people would live in harmony and orderliness. The book is the world-famous the Republic.

About 100 years before Plato lived, another cultural giant was dedicating his life to creating and building a society of peace and prosperity, a society of mutual love and orderliness. In the end, he died believing that his ideals would disappear with him from the world. He was wrong. His teachings gained in popularity, and generation after generation of Chinese inherited and handed down his great thoughts. This man is known in history as Confucius, a philosopher for the ages.

In the early years of the 17th century, when Western missionaries first trod upon the mysterious land of China, they were puzzled as to how such a vast empire containing dozens and dozens of ethnic g roups could coexist so harmoniously.

The key to this impressive imperial stability, the ideology that propped up this magnificent country was, as the missionaries were later to discover, provided by the life and teachings of that Oriental cultural giant, Confucius, the founder of the school of Confucianism. By the time those hesitant missionaries trod on Chinese soil, Confucius had been sleeping the sleep of ages for more than 2,000 years.

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希望京东不要只用一个袋子装书本，这样快递很容易把书搞烂

被骗真心的被骗了，因为当时没注意看介绍，垃圾书，老外蒙人

买个外国同事的，贵了些

比实体书店便宜一半 很满意

外国友人很喜欢。英文翻译很专业！

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包装很好，