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The Analects of Confucius

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Confucius said the music of the Shao was both perfectly beautiful and perfectly good. He said the music of the Wu was perfectly beautiful, but not perfectly good.

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Categories Book 3 Tags Confucius, Music, Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty
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Essays

  • The Analects and the Fluency Illusion
  • The Analects as a Twitter Feed
  • Confucius is (Almost) Always Talking to Someone

Links

  • Friends from Afar: A Confucianism Group
  • Confucian Weekly Bulletin
  • Bin Song on Huffington Post
  • Warp, Weft, and Way
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