Jan 27 – Page 1 (sec. A, verses 1 – 2)
Feb 3 – Page 2 (sec. A, verses 3 – 5)
Feb 10 – Page 3 (sec. A, verse 6 – sec. B, verse 3)
Feb 17 – Page 4 (sec. B, verses 4 – 5)
Feb 24 -- Page 5 (sec. B, verses 6 – 8)
Mar 3 -- Page 6 (sec. B, verses 9 – 11)
Mar 10 -- Page 7 (sec. B, verses 11 – 12)
Mar 17 -- Page 8 (sec. B, verses 12 – 13)
Mar 21 -- Page 9 (sec. B, verses 13 – 14)
Mar 31 -- Page 10 (sec. B, verses 14 – 16)
Apr 7 -- Page 11 (sec. B, verse 16)
Apr 14 -- Wrap up
The Great Learning is a guide for moral self-cultivation. According to it, the key to moral self-cultivation is "the investigation of things" (i.e., learning). Through the investigation of things, you come to understand the principles behind things, which allows you to better comprehend the world.
Through this moral self-cultivation, one's li (principle) and qi (psychophysical stuff) are in harmony, leading to consistent moral behavior. Though a relatively short work, The Great Learning was prescribed as the first of the Confucian Classics that would-be scholars should read.
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