Analects Worksheet

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Paraphrase this chapter while plugging in the simplified vocabulary word meanings.

What specifically can you do in your own life to show that you understand this book?

Define - Perseverance

Define - Application

Book 1 - Chapter 1 The Master said, "Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?

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Define - Virtue

Define - Discomposure

Book 1 - Chapter 1 "Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no discomposure though men may take no note of him?"





Define - Transacting

Define - Intercourse

Book 1 - Chapter 4 The philosopher Tsang said, "I daily examine myself on three points:-- whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful;-- whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere;-- whether I may have not mastered and practiced the instructions of my teacher."





Define - Reverence

Define - Gravity

Book 2 - Chapter 20 Chî K'ang asked how to cause the people to reverence their ruler, and to be faithful to him. The Master said, "Let him preside over them with gravity;-- then they will reverence him. Let him be kind to all;-- then they will be faithful to him."





Define - Scholar

Define - Discourse

Book 4 - Chapter 9 The Master said, "A scholar, whose mind is set on truth, and who is ashamed of bad clothes and bad food, is not fit to be discoursed with."





Define - Seldom

Define - Err

Book 4 - Chapter 20 The Master said, "The cautious seldom err."



Book 6 - Chapter 15 The Master said, "If the only way out is by the door, how is it that men will fight going out by that way?"



Define - illegitimate

Book 7 - Chapter 11 The Master said, "If any means of escaping poverty presented itself that did not involve doing wrong, I would adopt it. If it was by illegitimate means, I shall continue to pursue the quests that I love."






Define - Ardent

Define - Upright

Book 8 - Chapter 16 The Master said, "Ardent and yet not upright, stupid and yet not attentive; simple and yet not sincere:-- such persons do not understand."


Define - Stupid





Define - Superior

Define - Admirable

Book 12 - Chapter 16 The Master said, "The superior man seeks to perfect the admirable qualities of men, and does not seek to perfect their bad qualities. The mean man does the opposite of this."





Define - Affable

Define - Adulatory

Book 13 - Chapter 23 The Master said, "The superior man is affable, but not adulatory; the mean man is adulatory, but not affable."




Define - Resentment

Book 15 - Chapter 14 The Master said, "He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment."


Book 15 - Chapter 22 The Master said, "The superior man does not promote a man simply on account of his words."



Book 17 - Chapter 2 The Master said, "By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart."




Define - Nature

Book 19 - Chapter 21 Tsze-kung said, "The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes again, and all men look up to him."


Define - eclipse



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