Traditional attribution
Classic of Filial Piety (Xiaojing)
孝經
Eighteen chapters that make filial piety the root of all virtue and extend it from household to state: serving one's father is the model for serving one's prince. It was an elementary school text throughout imperial China and one of the first classics translated into European languages.
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Authorship note
A short dialogue between Confucius and his disciple Zengzi. Tradition attributes it to one or the other; scholarship dates it to the 4th–3rd centuries BCE as a work of Zengzi's school.
Editions and translations
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English
Confucius
The Hsiâo King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. III)
The Conscious LibraryThe Hsiâo King (Sacred Books of the East, vol. III)
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1879
Translation: James Legge
Dominio público.
Español
Textos escogidos (incluye el Libro de la piedad filial)
Alianza Editorial, 2021
Translation: Gabriel García-Noblejas Sánchez-Cendal y Carmen Torres Marín
ISBN 9788413625102
Other works by Confucius
- Analects (Lunyu) · 400
- Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu) · 481
- Book of Songs (Shijing) · 600
- Book of Documents (Shujing) · 500
- The Ten Wings of the Book of Changes · 300
- Record of Rites (Liji) · 100
- Sayings of the Confucian School (Kongzi jiayu) · 240
- The Four Books (Sishu) · 1190
- The Great Learning (Daxue) · 200
- Confucius's Discussion of the Odes (Kongzi shilun) · 300
Sources
- Nylan, Michael y Wilson, Thomas. Lives of Confucius: Civilization's Greatest Sage Through the Ages. Doubleday, Nueva York, 2010.
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