Confucius, The Great Learning: The great ordering of controllable things

I have spent a chunk of this evening moving furniture around with my husband as we convert our spare room into an office and moving our computers out of the lounge. It will be a big change for us as it will be the first time we have committed to having that room "empty" and not getting in a boarder. Also, it will be the first time since we got married that the computers will not be in the lounge.

Synopsis
The Great Learning is comprised of two parts. The first is only a single page long and it is the text attributed to Confucius. The Second is the annotation of Tsang which expands upon the ideas given in the first. The First part was taken from The book of Rites which is more about ritual and is left to stand alone as a moral or philosophical work.
The main text lays out the foundations and ties the proper running of the state to knowledge. Knowledge allows sincerity of thought, allows rectified hearts, allows cultivation of the person, allows well regulated families, and allows states to be rightly governed. If any one fails the next level can not be attained.

Reflections
I find the order of foundations, from self cultivation down to Knowledge, a little different from how I see them. I would have gone with; sincerity allows knowledge, allows rectified hearts. But that is just a gut feeling. The annotation seems to just state the same thing over and over, which is the prerogative of an annotation, but I don't feel it had much to add. It also makes a lot of references, mainly to "The book of Poetry" which, from my research, is most likely to be the "Classic of Poetry" in the five classics that support Confucian thought. These references expand the length of the annotation but give very little substance.

Comparisons
I don't really feel I can draw any meaningful comparisons from such a short text and annotation.  It is clear though that the original text is likely to be of Confucius or one direct disciple but that the annotation was most likely written later.

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