The Analects of Confucius provide insight I think contemporary China remains strong strongly influenced by his thinking (like South Korea). Confucius himself is not seen as a philosopher but as an educator. Compare and works of the great philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato with those of Confucius has little reason to be. This book popularized the form of short sentences, the main features of the thought of the author. Very accessible, it simply allows us to better understand the world and behave better with others.