Great Learning| The

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Article abstract: Originally entitled Da Xue (c. end of first century b.c.e.; English translation, 1861), The Great Learning is one of the Four Books of Confucianism, the philosophy's primary texts. Though neglected for more than a millennium after its initial composition, it has served since the twelfth century as a primer to Confucian thought.

Authorship and Context

Tradition attributes The Great Learning to Zengzi (b. 505 b.c.e.), one of the most influential of Confucius's original seventy-seven disciples. Zengzi is frequently quoted in...

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