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Le Bonheur Selon Confucius (2000)

by Yu Dan(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

2356412328 (ISBN13: 9782356412324)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

review 1: Slim, simple and yet so insightful. Most people are familiar with moral and natural principles, that seems so logical. And though people know they should live to the full, due to our own natural imperfection and lack of brevity in facing life, their spirit seems to have extinguished through the years and life becomes a mere existence. In this practical little book, Yu Dan describes the key points from Chinese greatest thinker Confucius' "Analects", that helps to understand how to reach that high state of mind. /"Analects" is a note made by his disciples from their master's lectures for Confucius himself abstained from writing a book./
review 2: This is a difficult one: I found the teachings of Confucius insightful, but the writing style put me off. I am making... more the assumption that this is both because of the fact that Yu Dan is a professor in China - this just means that English is not her first language - as well as the fact that this was a "personal interpretation" of the Analects of Confucius.Nowhere on the book does it stipulate that this book was a translation, but if it was, I could attribute the writing style to a less than great translator. However, if it wasn't, it begs the question: Why would she write in a language that is not her first language? As well as: Did the editor not foresee this problem, or was the editor happy with the level of writing, or was the editor perhaps Chinese as well? A lot goes lost when you are writing in a language that you learned intellectually.Having said that, the contents of the book is about the teaching of Confucius. He said a lot of things that made (makes) sense, even in today's world. I missed a practical section though; It is all well and good to know what the wise man said, but the wise man taught and discussed these things all day long: How can his wisdom be applied in the daily life of a person? How can his wisdom be applied to the modern western world, where your word does not mean as much as it does in China, for instance?After reading this book, I knew a bit about what Confucius said. That is just about all. I can't help but think that I could have learned a lot more about him and his teachings from a much more insightful book.This was not so much time wasted as time that could have been much better used. This is not a book that I will hold on to, nor one that I feel the desire to recommend to anyone. less

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