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中國先秦諸子的哲學思想、儒道佛三傢的哲思妙論至今讀來仍充滿睿智，予人啓迪。這些中國文化的思想精華，對於許多外國人來說也同樣充滿吸引力。

英文版“中國智慧”叢書麵嚮國外讀者，用當代人的視角探索孔子、老子、孫子、孟子、莊子等文化先賢傳奇跌宕的人生；用生動的故事和白描的手法，詮釋他們的智慧思想；通過中外曆史文化縱橫比較，錶現中國文化的傳承以及中國傳統文化與西方文化之間的相互影響。

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“中國智慧”叢書包括：《一代宗師—孔子》《亞聖—孟子》《兵聖—孫子》《韆年道德經—老子》《天地逍遙遊—莊子》。本套叢書的特色，就是突齣瞭古代先賢的智慧思想和當代中國社會的關聯性，因此每一個先賢人物讀起來都是那樣平和親近。書後附各位先賢經典語錄，深入淺齣的演繹，非常適閤外國人閱讀和理解，可作為他們瞭解中國文化的敲門磚。

《一代宗師——孔子》，嚮國外讀者介紹中國儒傢思想的奠基人和全球儒學的“至聖先師”——孔子的生平及其與弟子的經典語錄。相傳孔子有弟子三韆、賢弟子七十二人，孔子曾帶領弟子周遊列國14年，孔子還是一位古文獻整理傢，他的思想和學說對後世産生瞭極其深遠的影響。

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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目錄

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

精彩書摘

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.

買給外籍人士看的，改天給他寄迴去

希望京東不要隻用一個袋子裝書本，這樣快遞很容易把書搞爛

包裝很好，

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幫外國客戶買的，實際書本尺寸小，

老子有兩個版本，現在的版本是被篡改的。

買個外國同事的，貴瞭些

買給外籍人士看的，改天給他寄迴去

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