Though the prentense of being Good and teaching Goodness is admirable, this book seems self-promoting, more so than other similar texts, as it seems to push too much to follow the Confucian way.
The way wealth and social standing is talked about in passage 5 (book four) makes me think of societies today where people gain such things by illegal or immoral means.
In 4:6 it annoys me that he is talking about this perfect unknown person, his last line says: "but I have yet to meet him". Meet him, with absoluteky no thought to women, which haven't been mentioned in any of the analects, which, needless to say, greatly annoys me as a woman.
I am curious about Yan Hui, who was greatly praised in books 5 and 6 by both the master and his students, which makes me wonder why he was considered such a great man. all I've managed to gather about him is that he was a great learner.
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