Confucius, and Arthur Waley. The Analects of Confucius. New York: Vintage, 1989. Print.

This is a translated source of Confucius sayings. I will be using it as a primary source/evidence for connecting it with the game of go. I will use Confucian ideas to express ideas of morality and the path in life. This will be used to compare of how, like life, Go is simplistic to learn but difficult to master. I will also be comparing how it is impossible to tell who wins in the middle of a Go game because points cannot be added up until the endgame to how difficult it is to also attribute success in life at the middle of it.

Kupperman, Joel. Classic Asian Philosophy.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Print.

An interpretation of Confucius thought. In this work, Hall takes the work of Confucius (from The Analects) and interprets it into a full narrative based on Confucius’s life and why he would have spoken such Analects. The Analects was not a work that Confucius wrote but rather the sayings he once said, put together by his students after his death. Thus, a lot of the philosophy of Confucius was passed on orally. Hall states that Confucius had a desire to become a political leader but never achieved it.

I will be using this text to help me interpret some of the sayings in The Analects of Confucius and use the interpretation to help me form a comparison between Confucian philosophy and Go.

Kupperman, Joel. Learning from Asian Philosophy. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. Print.  

This text is a critical text that relates Western philosophical ideas to Eastern ones. It is not a text that is trying to make a true one-to-one comparison but rather of why Western philosophies do not fit into Eastern ones. In short, it provides a familiar foundation to stand on about philosophical ideas such as morality but only gives examples of it to warn not to compare it to Eastern Ideas.

I will use this text to understand the idea of Confucian Philosophy and his idea of morality. The main point will be that of the almost-deterministic approach that Confucius expresses. He believes that any simple action can cause someone to stray from The Way or to follow it more closely. The end is not clear but the result can surely be traced back to the origin of action.

Shotwell, Peter. Go! : More Than a Game. North Clarendon, VT, USA: Tuttle Publishing. 2003 Accessed March 29, 2016. ProQuest ebrary.

A brief history of the origin of Go. Peter Shotwell is a historian and a recognized expert on the game and philosophy of Go. He has been writing about it for almost 20 years.

This books goes into detail about the basic rules of Go, the conversation of the game, and some anecdotes of philosophy. What is most important is the history of Go in the back of the book that tells of its Chinese origin and popularity in the East. It is speculated that Go has been around for about 3000 years. The simplicity of the game is what makes it an easy game to learn and a hard one to master.

I will be using this source to introduce the rules of the game of Go and how, in its simplicity, can be used to mirror different situations in life such as choice, path, and morality.

“Welcome to the American Go Association.” Welcome to American Go Association. Web. 14 Apr. 2016.

The official site for the American Go Association. There is a vast quantity of information about Go on the site including their own virtual library of historical accounts, past games and tournaments worldwide, and past e-newsletters. They also have a blog that they update regularly for any current Go news.

I will be using this source as a main source for diagrams and also a supplement to basic ideas that Shotwell does not go into such as the ‘net’ problem, komi, Go ratings, and some diagrams.