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Remember though that you're now coming to them after previous exposure to the book, yes?
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No, when I read Leys's translation at fifteen years old or so, I had no previous exposure to Confucianism whatsoever, and I was able to get the gist of much of it, esp. with his notes.
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are your DMs closed? lame - anyway, I think not knowing Chinese might also give you undue faith in the translations, too. The Analects are more like crib notes for the transmission of an oral doctrine
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