Confucian tradition · 551–479 BCE · traditional dates
Confucius
Becoming human, together.
State of Lu · ancient China
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Learning that changes how we live
Enter the Analects through learning: why study, whom to learn from and how to recognise knowledge that genuinely changes a life.
AnalectsWhen gestures become care
Explore the relationship between ren and li: how humaneness and shared forms of living can support one another, or come apart.
AnalectsTo govern is to answer for yourself
Read the political reflections of the Analects while distinguishing example, responsibility and the limits of a model based on social roles.
Analects