Books That Matter: The Analects of Confucius

Ritual Conduct in the Analects (1x16)

Air date: Dec 08, 2016

Ritual lies at the heart of the Analects, and is perhaps one of Confucius's biggest action items. Here, delve into the idea of ritual propriety (li), which requires an individual to acknowledge both cosmological concepts and minute details. Ritual, as you'll discover, is so much more than just stuffy rule-following.