The Great Learning - Confucius

Central to the study of Chinese civilization at its widest extension is the thought of the great sage K'ung, usually known in the West by the Latinized form of his name, Confucius.\n His works form the core of more than two thousand years of Oriental civilization, and even today, when he has been officially discarded,\n his thought remains important for understanding the present as well as the past.\n Yet Confucius is the property of not only the his ideas stood behind much of the rational social thought of the European Enlightenment,\n as great philosophers from Leibnitz on seized with delight "the perfect ethic without that China offered them.\n The present edition of the wisdom of Confucius is certainly the best edition ever prepared in the West.\n The results of many years of study in