Book · 221 BC · Nonfiction

The Analects

Name: The Analects
Author: Confucius

Oxford University Press · 110 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Confucius answers his students in short exchanges: never do to others what you would not want done to yourself, and let ritual shape everything. Chinese officials memorized it to hold office until 1905.

Genre

Philosophy

Subject

Society Politics Morality

Time

221 BCDepicts Ancient World

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