Analects (Lunyu) - British English: Fundamental maxims and dialogues for the understanding of classical Chinese thought and the way of the sage.

Confucius (Kongzi, 551 BC – 479 BC) was an influential Chinese thinker, philosopher, and teacher whose teachings on personal and governmental morality, the correction of social relationships, justice, and sincerity have exerted a profound influence on the thought and life of East Asia for more than two millennia.

Originally from the state of Lu, Confucius lived during the turbulent Spring and Autumn period, an era of political fragmentation and constant warfare that awakened in him a deep concern for the restoration of social order and moral virtue. Despite not having held political positions of lasting high relevance, he dedicated a large part of his life to itinerant teaching, forming a large community of disciples to whom he transmitted an ethical system based on inner cultivation, benevolence (ren), filial respect, and the observance of rites (li).

Although during his lifetime his political proposals met with little acceptance among the rulers of his time, his intellectual legacy survived through the transcriptions of his sayings and conversations compiled by his followers in the Analects. With the advent of the Han dynasty, Confucianism was institutionalized as the official ideology of the Chinese state, transforming itself into the fundamental pillar of education, the imperial bureaucracy, and the cultural structure of China and much of the Far East until the modern era.

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