Confucius Condition:Well Read Edited and with an Introduction

Edited and with an Introduction by Fredson Bowers

At the very same moment

It’s a pregnancy full of cheesy potatoes

and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited – one that inspires fascination and fear in equal measure

Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering an 800 number for one dollar an hour

Confucius Condition:Well Read Edited and with an IntroductionSetting the stage with a finely detailed description of the ancient hierarchical tradition into which Confucius was born, D. Howard Smith relates Confucian thought to what went before. He shows how the doctrines of filial piety, duty to state, propriety, education, tradition, tolerance, and moral persuasion were affected by competing philosophical schools, and explains Confucianism's peaceful coexistence with the rival systems of Buddhism and Taoism.