The Analects of Confucius is an important classic of China's ancient Confucianism, and it is a recorded work of Confucius' disciples and later scholars describing Confucius' words and deeds. The Analects of Confucius was written in the early Warring States period. The book * * * consists of 20 chapters and 492 sections, with quotation as the main body and narrative as the supplement, which embodies the political opinions, ethical thoughts, moral concepts and educational principles of Confucius and Confucianism.
The content involves politics, education, literature, philosophy and the truth that exists in the world. As early as the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, when Confucius set up an altar to give lectures, its main contents were initially established. After the death of Confucius, his disciples and disciples passed on his remarks from generation to generation, and recorded the words and deeds quoted orally, so it was called On. The Analects of Confucius mainly records the words and deeds of Confucius and his disciples.
The ideological content of The Analects;
As a Confucian classic, The Analects is profound and all-encompassing, and its thoughts mainly include three independent and closely dependent categories: ethics-benevolence, social and political category-courtesy, and cognitive methodology category-the mean.
Benevolence, first of all, is the true state in people's hearts. This kind of truth must be good, and this state of truth is "benevolence" Confucius established the category of benevolence, and then expounded that propriety is a reasonable social relationship and a norm of dealing with people and things that is compatible with benevolence, and further expounded the methodological principle of the system of "golden mean". "Benevolence" is the ideological core of The Analects.