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 Confucius The Secular as Sacred
Herbert Fingarette
An ideal way to discover the teachings of Confucius! Fingarette’s primary aim is to help readers discover what is distinctive in Confucius and to learn what he can teach us. Fingarette—who thinks the best way to discover Confucius’s teaching is by taking him at his word—uses original text as his principal resource in an effort to try to see what it says, what it implies and what it does not say or need not imply.
 $13.95 list, 84 pages 10-digit ISBN: 1-57766-010-2 13-digit ISBN: 978-1-57766-010-1 © 1972
“In the fifty years in which I have been studying Confucius, I cannot recall that I have found the work of another scholar more stimulating than that of Professor Fingarette.” —Herrlee G. Creel, Journal of the American Academy of Religion
“. . . Confucius has revitalized all our thinking about the sage. . . . [it] opens up new prospects of understanding and learning from Confucius.” —A. C. Graham, Times Literary Supplement
“Confucius is one of the most significant philosophical books on the subject to be published in a long time.” —Henry J. Rosemont, Jr., Philosophy East and West
“. . . this wonderful little . . . book has become a modern classic of Confucian interpretation.” —John M. Koller, Oriental Philosophies
“With superb faithfulness to the text, Fingarette discerns the deepest meaning of the thought of Confucius and, paradoxically, its application to our own time. This is another beautiful book from one of our most perceptive thinkers.” —Robert N. Bellah
Table of Contents
1. Human Community as Holy Rite 2. A Way without a Crossroads 3. The Locus of the Personal 4. Traditionalist or Visionary? 5. A Confucian Metaphor—the Holy Vessel
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