Work
The Analects
AN-uh-lekts; Lunyu: loon-YOO
Also Known As Lunyu
Ethics
A collection of sayings and short dialogues attributed to Confucius, compiled by his disciples and their own students after his death rather than written by him directly. Organized in twenty books of brief, often unconnected passages, it is the primary source for Confucius's own teaching on ritual propriety, humaneness and the cultivation of moral character, and became the founding text of the Confucian tradition.
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Publication YearCompiled in stages by successive generations of disciples over roughly a century after Confucius's death in 479 BCE; no single compilation date is attested, and the text as it now stands is generally dated to the Warring States period. Classification
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Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Source Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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1. Wikipedia: Analects
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The Analects, also known as the Sayings of Confucius, is an ancient Chinese philosophical text composed of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled by his followers.
2. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford University, Center for the Study of Language and InformationStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Confucius, section 2 Sources for Confucius's Life and Thought
The last millennium has seen the development of a conventional view that materials preserved in the twenty chapters of the transmitted Analects most accurately represent Confucius's original teachings.
- Authored By: Confucius
- In Category: Works
- In Branch: Ethics
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