{"id":380,"date":"2008-07-26T11:23:31","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T10:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-08-01T15:34:53","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T14:34:53","slug":"the-great-learning-by-confucius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"The Great Learning by Confucius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/the_great_learning_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"the_great_learning_cover\" src=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/the_great_learning_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"121\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/generator\/the_great_learning_A4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">A4<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/generator\/the_great_learning_US.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">US Letter<\/a> PDF 316Kb<\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected and Introduced<\/strong> for <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?cat=143\" target=\"_blank\">Short Work<\/a> by <strong>Garrick Jones<\/strong>, musician, academic and founder of the Ludic Group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Great Learning by Confucius was written around 500BC and forms the basis of much of Chinese political discourse and philosophy. These books were required texts for admission to Chinese administration for over 1500 years. \u00a0They seek to provide a framework that unites the spiritual and the material with higher goals through self-cultivation, inquiry and learning.<\/p>\n<p>The books are influential today in Chinese thought, were relevant throughout the Communist era, and were used didactically during the reign of the Emperors \u2013 as such they are essential reading and provide powerful insight into this great Culture. \u00a0They are essentially materialist and promote the agency of the individual within society.<\/p>\n<p>The English composer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornelius_Cardew\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius Cardew<\/a> (1936\u20131981) famously used them as the libretto for his astonishing compositions \u2013 the forms of which were in turn uniquely inspired them. \u00a0A set series of musical pieces which can be sung by any number of people, with any level of proficiency \u2013 and which, to my mind, demonstrate the emergent outcomes of complex, adaptive systems applying simple instruction sets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludicgroup.com\" target=\"_blank\">Garrick Jones<\/a><br \/>\nJuly 2008<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confucius\" target=\"_blank\">Confucius<\/a> (Master Kong\/K&#8217;ung-tzu, 551-479 B.C.E.) is among the world&#8217;s most influential thinkers and teachers, his philosophical teachings guiding the Chinese Empire for over two thousand years.<\/p>\n<p>Sourced from Sacred Texts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.sacred-texts.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download A4 | US Letter PDF 316Kb Selected and Introduced for Short Work by Garrick Jones, musician, academic and founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,143],"tags":[412,39,180],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebooks","category-short-work","tag-confucius","tag-education","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}