The Legacy of the Analects of Confucius

Confucianism plays a curious role in life for those involved with the world, as such that it has been one of the most successful forms of guidelines for government and familial narrations throughout all history. Although The Analects have long been held closely to many, particularly to those of Chinese culture, it does by no means take religious form on behalf of its lack of commitment to any specific belief or dogma. In fact, Confucianism is capable to coalesce with any religion without being at variance to any conception of faith; in lieu, the words of Confucius categorize themselves by default as societal steadiness on a fulcrum of the two opposing planes good and amoral; a peak at which utopian and dystopian intersect creating an equilibrium of that which is humanity. In Confucius The Analects, the wholly righteous and the inflexibly good are those who wrongfully emit virtue into the void.

In book 17, chapter XIII, Confucius states "Your honest countryman is the spoiler of morals." When I grazed this over, it immediately portrayed a contradiction that seemed completely nonsensical to me. It seemed bizarre to state that someones honesty is a cause to wilt moral. When I researched this sentence I found another translation of Confucius's words that read "The goody-goodies are the thieves of virtue." Interpreted, this means that there are two sides of the coin -- both sides of the quarter, though opposite in direction, are melted and pressed together to make the worth of twenty-five cents. Without George Washington on one side and an eagle on the other, it wouldn't be a quarter. Just as we have an embedded nature of honesty, cohesively, we have a nature to deceive. Without opposition to that of good virtue, it is only pertained ...

... middle of paper ...

...s sound source. In the audio world, that sound is the anti-Christ. It seems as though when somethings reside back where it came from, things get ugly. The ecological, such as: when cows are fed their own brains it results in mad cow disease. Or, there are loops like incest and inbreeding. Or, for a biological example, there are autoimmune diseases where the body attacks itself with the same substance it's using to rebuild. Confucius projects an idea that hides a spectrum of vicious cycles applicable to much more than just that analogy. That too, is only a vain on a much grander anatomical scale. It displays a negligence towards how potentially inhuman or human we are, in as much that we assume and paint our own result in the mirage at the end of the road. We assume where the road takes us just from what we heard from our ears.

Works Cited

Confucius the Analects