From Andrew Plaks’s Introduction to a Set of Confucian Classics Followed by a Surprise Acquisition @davidnovakreadspoetry
From Andrew Plaks’s Introduction to a Set of Confucian Classics Followed by a Surprise Acquisition @davidnovakreadspoetry
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Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung: The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean, published as a Penguin Classic in English translation by Andrew Plaks.

You may know these titles differently—The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean, or something of that ilk.
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From Andrew Plaks’s Introduction to a Set of Confucian Classics Followed by a Surprise Acquisition

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