Confucius’s Death Leads to the Creation of The Analects
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- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Philosophers, Theology, Theologians, Confucianism
- Curriculum: Asian History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: China
- Date: 479
Article abstract: In recording the scholar-philosopher Confucius’s conversations, his followers epitomized his life and teachings, providing the foundation for Confucianism, a philosophical outlook that has shaped Chinese and other East Asian societies.
Summary of Event
On the eleventh day of the fourth month, 479 b.c.e., Confucius died. His death was not dramatic; according to tradition, he sensed that his time had come, took to his bed, and seven days later, expired. His life—which has been reconstructed by modern scholars largely from the...
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