WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -The Analects are a collection of Confucius’s sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the primary purposes of the Analects, then, was to serve as a text that would provide Confucius’s followers with a more detailed understanding of etiquette and proper behavior. The Analects were written in part as a response to the political turmoil and corrupt governments of the day.