Sunday, November 13, 2011
Who did Confucius intend to be the audience of his teachings?
I am writing a paper on The Analects, and I can't figure out who Confucius wrote it for (or, at least, his teachings.) Was it for the general population of the Zhou dynasty, or just for political leaders?|||I would argue that it was for the general population of educated readers, because in the Analects, there is a lot there about how the lower classes should obey their superiors. If it was just for the superiors, then why would that be in there? Though that's a little flip, because while the educated would be the only ones to READ it, the teachings would trickle down and influence EVERYBODY.|||He was a teacher. His teaching were for everybody.|||Mankind!
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