Analects

Lunyu

textual humanities text book core Lifetime Path planned

Creators

Confucius and early Confucian tradition, attributed tradition

Canon Rationale

A core Confucian text, included for ethics, ritual, education, political order, self-cultivation, East Asian intellectual history, and its long role in curriculum and commentary traditions.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 7.

Evidence

handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Confucianism: The Analects as the embodiment of Confucian ideas'.
handbook: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Confucius'.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Sensitivity Flags

living tradition

Completion unit: read the whole collection in a chosen translation, keeping transmission, commentary tradition, and living-tradition context visible.