Jesse

I have no need to snoop around on Wikipedia in that respect. The majority of English translations of the I Ching stem from either Wilhelm-Baynes , or Legge, both of which used heavily Confucian starting points, Wilhelm indeed incorporates a mass of additional, later material. There are versions available which aim to present a cleaner translation, I do not say 'correct', because do think there is such a thing as a 'correct' translation, like Blofeld, which is quite spare, or those from Ritsema, Karcher et al. which give a word by word parallelism, with possibly unfortunate results, and an awful lot of Jung, however Legge is usefully out of copyright, while Wilhelm-Baynes is distinctively and memorably written.

I went as far as my memory and bookshelves for that: you presume too much.

On 16 October 2012 22:49, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

David--You can buy a fake oracle bone or turtle plastrum on E-bay. Makes
a great conversation piece. The I-Ching "we have" has not been so
heavily edited. If you snoop around some more on Wikipedia you'll see.

and Jim--yes, all of that scientistic stuff. We discussed the new age
junk science in the class and and it's a commonplace (as David would
say) to dismiss it and it properly was. Quantum computing is a whole
different kettle of fish, though. It seems to promise a real
break-through.

Jess

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