Composition of The Great Learning
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Philosophy, Education, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Theology, Theologians, Confucianism
- Curriculum: Asian History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: China
- Date: 5th-1st century
Article abstract: The Great Learning provided a capsule statement of the connections among philosophical inquiry, good character, and government/social order and was established as the first of the Confucian Four Books.
Summary of Event
Political turmoil forms the backdrop to the composition of Da Xue (The Great Learning, 1861). In the late sixth and early fifth centuries b.c.e., the kingdoms that would become China had been warring with one another for three hundred years. This warfare would only increase in intensity and brutality during...
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