Analects

those societies should live and act. At the same time, individuals have seemed to always seek freedoms within those societies, and have sometimes come into conflict with the restrictions placed on them by those rules. Hammurabi’s code, Confucius’s analects, and the Bible all have clear rules and regulations that state how an individual should live, while still allowing certain freedoms to their followers. Hammurabi was the ruler of Babylon, the world's first metropolis from 1795 to 1750 BC.…

Confucius was an influential Chinese philosopher that was responsible for the official ideology, Confucianism, of China. He wrote many books and one of them is called The Analects, which is believed to be written by his students. The Analects contains a collection of Confucius’ sayings and ideas. In this book, his teachings focused on creating ethical models of family and public interaction, and setting educational standards. In this book, readers can realize that Confucius had a good…

Definition of an ideal society Valmiki’s Ramayana and Confucius’ Analects provide a powerful illustration of an ideal and functional society by demonstrating what a ruler or government should do in order to make an ideal society. The two rulers described by Confucius and Valmiki, both have power/sovereignty over the society and the ideal society is defined as having righteous behavior with each other, having no poverty and crime, being dutiful, and respecting elders. Society based on changeable…

associated with their gender in fear of social ostracization. Throughout literary pieces such as The Analects by Confucius, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and Virginia Woolf’s Professions for Women, gradual progress in the societal understanding that a human’s purpose and motive can not invariably be based off of gender is made by rebellious individuals who defy these standards. In Confucius’s Analects, despite his reiteration of the importance of social and moral equity, the reoccurring…

corruption in government, the lack of faith concerning a government’s actions, and the dangers of lacking support from its citizens. In timeless texts such as Sallust, The Bible, and The Analects, varied concerns and opinions are expressed concerning the very issue of government. Throughout the readings within The Analects, Confucius discusses many topics of interest, one of them being government. Often Confucius promotes the idea of leading by example. He says that the best way to govern a…

proper seasons (Confucius, The Analects, c.479-221 B.C.E, pg. 137). Confucius also describes how laws and how people should be conformed to them. He describes that if they are punished, people will try to avoid the punishment with no regrets. He believes that to make citizens conform to laws, the empire must not give punishment. The empire must be less strict to give a sense of guilt among the people, thus making them want to obey the rules (Confucius, The Analects, c.479-221 B.C.E, pg. 137).…

philosophies, found within the Analects and the Dao De Jing, as being both demonstrably ineffective as well as surprising efficacious. Context and subjectivity are front and center when dealing with textual ideologies and the use of either of these philosophies is no different. While the two require a grueling amount of self-restraint, both diverge when explaining the position of where a ruler should be. Take for instance, a battle between two opposing forces. The Analects deems that the Junzi,…

doctrine of ren or benevolence is, for Confucian school the heart of his philosophy of man. This notion is regularly present in the Analects of…

to the issue of education. Most of Confucius teachings are recorded in the forms of Analects. Analects (Lunyu) classify as teaching or recording conversations.…

believes to be key values that everyone in society must conform to such as ren (kindness), li (everyday norms), yi (altruism), and zhi (morality). His writing evinces a very conservative stance when it comes to citizens conforming to these values. The Analects furthers its point through specific examples. When Duke Ding inquires “how a lord should direct his minister and how a minister should serve his lord” (Confucius, 12), Confucius counters that if the lord acts upon li the minister would…