| Read and share with the class the information in the background information about the time in which the analects were written. |
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| However many other philosophers and religious figures have used analects to a lesser extent. |
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| His teachings, preserved in the lunyu or analects, form the foundation of much of the subsequent Chinese speculation on the education and comportment of the ideal man. |
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| Analects passages such as these made Confucius the model of courtliness and personal decorum for countless generations of Chinese officials. |
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| Harmony is a also a key word of understanding Confucius's thought, the term has appeared in The Analects eight times. |
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| Through the Analects Confucians for centuries learned to reenact the awe-inspiring ritual of participating in a conversation with Confucius. |
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| Aphorisms concerning his teachings were compiled in the Analects, but only many years after his death. |
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| Likewise, the Analects is composed of collections of the sage's sayings, mostly as answers to questions or as a result of discussions because writing implements and materials were expensive and scarce. |
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| In time, their writings, together with the Analects and other core texts came to constitute the philosophical corpus of Confucianism. |
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| The Analects abstains from inconsistence between words and acts, which gives the impression that the communicator cannot practice the values beheld. |
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| The Analects depict him spending his last years teaching 72 or 77 disciples and transmitting the old wisdom via a set of texts called the Five Classics. |
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| Confucius's teachings were later turned into an elaborate set of rules and practices by his numerous disciples and followers, who organized his teachings into the Analects. |
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