CONFUCIUS THE ANALECTS Psychotherapeutic CommentariesA Wayfaring Counselor’s Renderingof The Collected Sayings of Kong Fu Zi
Raymond Bart Vespe
ISBN 13: 978-1-58790-703-6 / 332 pages / paperback / 6” x 9” / $24.95
Ethics / Philosophy / Government
ABOUT THE BOOK
Confucius is a socio-political philosopher, teacher and founder of the Chinese virtue ethics philosophy of Confucianism; the most fundamental influential spiritual tradition of Chinese culture and society for 2,500 years with an estimated six million followers world-wide.
Confucius teaches cultivating moral virtues such as filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, propriety, learning, wisdom, sincerity and reciprocity. Cultured human beings and leaders are gentlepersons embodying, living and enacting the soft power of the Way of Goodness. Confucianism is a timeless Way of being and living that is relevant for transforming our current Western civilization, political order, social harmony and our personal integrity, freedom, peace, intimacy and happiness.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ray Vespe, M.S., Ph.D., is a former Associate Professor of Integral Counseling Psychology and a retired Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Ray has devoted seventy years of personal and professional life to integrating Eastern psychospiritual and Western psychotherapeutic teachings and practices, specifically the spiritual traditions of Taoism, Buddhism and Zen and Phenomenological-Existential and Humanistic-Transpersonal Psychologies.
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