Great Learning (大学)
Item
- Title
- Great Learning (大学)
- Chinese Title
- 大学
- 大學
- Romanizations
- Daxue
- Da xue
- Ta-hsüeh
- Author(s)
- Confucius
- Year
- Warring States period
- Summary
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The Daxue (Great Learning) is a foundational Confucian text arguing that social order and world peace stem directly from personal morality. Originally a chapter in the Book of Rites, it asserts that successful governance is impossible without first achieving self-cultivation.
The text presents a logical chain of development: the ‘Three Guidelines’ (manifesting virtue, loving the people, and abiding in the highest good) and the ‘Eight Steps’. These steps describe a path beginning with the ‘investigation of things’ and ‘sincerity of will’, which leads to a regulated family, a well-governed state, and ultimately, peace throughout the world.
- URLs
- ChinaKnowledge.de
- Item sets
- Classical Texts
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| The First Book | TranslationSection |
| The Method of the Great Men to Learn | TranslationSection |
| 大學 Le Ta Hio ou La Grande étude, ouvrage de Khoung-fou-tseu (Confucius) et de son Disciple Thseng-Tseu | TranslationSection |
| 大學 Le Ta Hio ou La Grande étude, ouvrage de Khoung-fou-tseu (Confucius) et de son Disciple Thseng-Tseu | TranslationSection |
| 大學 Le Ta Hio ou La Grande étude, ouvrage de Khoung-fou-tseu (Confucius) et de son Disciple Thseng-Tseu | TranslationSection |
| 大學 Le Ta Hio ou La Grande étude, ouvrage de Khoung-fou-tseu (Confucius) et de son Disciple Thseng-Tseu | TranslationSection |
| 大學 Le Ta Hio ou La Grande étude, ouvrage de Khoung-fou-tseu (Confucius) et de son Disciple Thseng-Tseu | TranslationSection |
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
 A New History of China |
Translation |
 Bibliotheca selecta qua agitur de ratione studiorum (1593) |
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 Bibliotheca selecta qua agitur de ratione studiorum (1603) |
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 Bibliotheca selecta qua agitur de ratione studiorum (1607) |
Translation |
 China, seu humana institutio |
Translation |
 Confucius et Mencius (1841) |
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 Confucius et Mencius (1852) |
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 Confucius et Mencius (1858) |
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 Confucius et Mencius (1868) |
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 Confucius et Mencius (1874) |
Translation |
 Confucius ou la science des princes |
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| Confucius ou la science des princes (2015) | Translation |
 Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (1687) |
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 Confucius Sinarum Philosophus (2011) |
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 Cursus litteraturae sinicae |
Translation |
 Das himmlische Reich, oder, China's Leben, Denken, Dichten und Geschichte |
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| De animi cultu | Translation |
 Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1735) |
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