Philosophers

The Good Man and the Steadfast: The Value of Constancy

The Sage and the Gentleman: A Hierarchy of Ideals

The Fourfold Curriculum: Deconstructing the Pillars of Confucian Pedagogy

‘Have I Kept Anything Back?’ The Master’s Reassurance to His Disciples

A Decree of Heaven: “Virtue Is Within Me, What Can Man Do?”

The Mobile Classroom: Finding a Teacher in Every Group of Three

The Four Taboos: What Confucius Consciously Remained Silent About

Not Born Knowing: A Lover of Antiquity, Earnest in Seeking

The Portrait of a Lifelong Learner: So Engrossed He Forgot to Eat and Age

The Three Pillars of Confucian Discourse: The Odes, The History, and The Rites

A Lament for More Time: Confucius’s Wish to Study the Book of Changes

Happiness in a Bowl of Rice: The Floating Cloud of Ill-Gotten Wealth

The Attainment of the Goal: Why Seekers of Virtue Have No Regret

Three Months Without Taste: When Music Transcended the Senses

The Three Things Confucius Treated with Ultimate Caution