Core moral concept of ren (仁) in the Analects (Lunyu) and its translation in Rus-sian Sinology
... in the ancient Chinese philosophical text “The Analects” (Lunyu). It focuses on the polysemy of the central moral concept ‘ren’ (仁) in different contexts and analyzes how this concept is rendered in Russian through a comparison of passages translated by Russian sinologists. The study aims to describe the methods and strategies used by Russian translators of classical Chinese philosophy over the three centuries of work on this canonical text, to identify shortcomings and shifts in meaning in their translations,...
