![]() ![]() The text is clearly a conjoining of several smaller texts that were put together over several centuries by Confucius’s disciples and subsequent followers. Robert Eno of Indiana University wrote: Each chapters is “composed of a series of sayings in an order which sometimes seems cogent, but more often seems random. After Chapter Ten or Twelve you get a lot of fishy Taoist stuff."ĭr. told Atlantic Monthly, "We have known for a long time that some of the later parts of the book are suspect. University of Southern California historian John Wills Jr. The first half of The Analects is stylistically and thematically very different from the second half. Confucius himself once said he merely "transmitted" what was taught to him "without making anything up" on his own. More likely they were compiled by his disciples and written down by other people. ![]() ![]() The 20 chapters and 497 verses of The Analects were unknown until 300 years after his death. Confucius reportedly compiled the sayings, aphorism, maxims and episodes that make up The Analects during his retirement. ![]() The original Chinese title meant “collated sayings”. “Analects” means brief sayings or literary fragments. The principal source for the thought of Confucius is a text known as “The Analects of Confucius”. Ancient version of the Analects from Dunhuang ![]()
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