Open Access“The Master Said:”––Confucius as a Quote
Author(s) -
Helena Motoh
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
asian studies/asian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.23
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2350-4226
pISSN - 2232-5131
DOI - 10.4312/as.2019.7.2.287-300
Subject(s) - historicity (philosophy) , narrative , phenomenon , philosophy , point (geometry) , core (optical fiber) , selection (genetic algorithm) , literature , history , the internet , epistemology , art , computer science , political science , law , world wide web , telecommunications , geometry , mathematics , artificial intelligence , politics
The paper focuses on the phenomenon of quoting Confucius, the classical Chinese thinker of the Western Zhou Dynasty. Firstly, it approaches the core issue of quotes and historicity of the “master said” narrative which marked the tradition of quoting Confucius and understanding his heritage through the form of quotes. In the core part of the paper, a selection of ten quotes that most commonly circulate on the Internet are analysed and traced to their most probable sources, while the paper then concludes by approaching the problem of misquoting from a historical and philosophical point of view.