But when he came to Confucius's school, he found that the principles Confucius taught seemed to be apart from society.

Wang was a follower of Confucius, but he believed that the neo-Confucian philosophy which dominated China at the time had distorted Confucius's teachings.

Confucius's social ascendancy linked him to the growing class of shi ( 士 ), a class intermediate between the aristocracy and the common people.

For these reasons, according to many commentators, Confucius's teachings may be considered a Chinese example of humanism.

Ironically, although versions of popular Confucianism became strongly associated with idol worship, traditionalists, notably the Qing emperor Kang Xi, did not believe that such idolization accurately reflected Confucius's intent ( see Chinese Rites controversy ).

# Virtue ethics, derived from Aristotle's and Confucius's notions, which asserts that the right action will be that chosen by a suitably ' virtuous ' agent.

Following the victory of Han over Chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism.

After Confucius's resignation, he began a long journey or set of journeys around the small kingdoms of northeast and central China, traditionally including the states of Wei, Song, Chen, and Cai.

By not asking about the horses, Confucius demonstrates that the sage values human beings over property ; readers are led to reflect on whether their response would follow Confucius's and to pursue self-improvement if it would not have.

" Confucius's moral system was based upon empathy and understanding others, rather than divinely ordained rules.

Confucius's teachings were later turned into an elaborate set of rules and practices by his numerous disciples and followers, who organized his teachings into the Analects.

Two of Confucius's most famous later followers emphasized radically different aspects of his teachings.

Confucius's works are studied by scholars in many other Asian countries, particularly those in the Sinosphere, such as Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Confucius's family, the Kongs, has the longest recorded extant pedigree in the world today.

If the descent were truly unbroken, father-to-son, since Confucius's lifetime, the males in the family would all have the same Y chromosome as their direct male ancestor, with slight mutations due to the passage of time.

A flourishing of philosophy during the Warring States Period produced such noteworthy works as Confucius's Analects and Laozi's Tao Te Ching.

Some of the oldest written music dates back to Confucius's time.

The ideals of the book were supposedly Confucius's ; however the text was written after his death.

One of Confucius's disciples, Mencius, ( c. 372 – c.

' Zi-qian was high in Confucius's esteem.

He was a native of Lu, and Confucius's junior only by seven years.

Following Confucius's death, many of the disciples built huts near the master's grave, and mourned for him three years, but Zi-gong remained sorrowing alone for three years more.

His place in the temples is in the hall to Confucius's ancestors, where his tablet is the first, west.

One authority, however, says he was only four years younger, and that his father and Confucius's father were both celebrated for their strength.

This was the son, it is said, of Confucius's elder brother, the cripple Mang-pi.

The people everywhere had grown meanwhile in devotion to basic democratic principles, in understanding of and belief in the federal balance, and in love of their Union.

We have had sound grounding in the principles of the mailed-fist-in-velvet-glove school of diplomacy.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

Gamow solved a model potential for the nucleus and derived, from first principles, a relationship between the half-life of the decay, and the energy of the emission, which had been previously discovered empirically, and was known as the Geiger – Nuttall law.

While he was heir-apparent — 1865 to 1881 — Alexander did not play a prominent part in public affairs, but allowed it to become known that he had ideas which did not coincide with the principles of the existing government.

Dmitri's grandfather Ivan had been a prominent lawyer in Tsarist Russia who had displayed respect for social awareness and humanitarian principles ( including advocating the abolition of capital punishment ) that would later influence his grandson.

While the greatest players of the time, among them Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker and Capablanca, clearly did not allow their play to be hobbled by blind adherence to general concepts that the center had to be controlled by pawns, that development had to happen in support of this control, that rooks always belong on open files, that wing openings were unsound — core ideas of Tarrasch's chess philosophy as popularly understood — beginners were taught to think of these generalizations as unalterable principles.

Writing many years later, Bonaparte commented that if the French Navy had adopted the same tactical principles as the British:

( Similar principles had been used in an earlier burner design by Michael Faraday as well as in a device patented in 1856 by the gas engineer R W Elsner.

In time, a rule, known as stare decisis ( also commonly known as precedent ) developed, whereby a judge would be bound to follow the decision of an earlier judge ; he was required to adopt the earlier judge's interpretation of the law and apply the same principles promulgated by that earlier judge if the two cases had similar facts to one another.

The resolution stated that as Cuba had officially identified itself as a Marxist-Leninist government, is was incompatible with " the principles and objectives of the inter-American system.

" He had a reputation for obscure philosophical principles and for speaking in riddles.

By the First World War, the Liberal Party had largely abandoned classical liberal principles.

The International Court of Justice ruled on 27 June 1986 that by disseminating the manual to the contras, the United States of America had " encouraged ... acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.

On February 17, 1835, after the committee had selected the book's contents, the committee wrote that the resulting work represents " our belief, and when we say this, humbly trust, the faith and principles of this society as a body.

This was contrary to the principles of the life of independence which these mountaineers had always lived, and resulted in a general uprising against Egyptian rule.

* With regard to a European company formed through a merger, the standard principles relating to worker participation will apply where at least 25 % of the employees had the right to participate in decisions before the merger.

At mid-century Dewey believed that progressive education had “ not really penetrated and permeated the foundations of the educational institution .”( Kohn, Schools, 6, 7 ) As the influence of progressive pedagogy grew broader and more diffuse, practitioners began to vary their application of progressive principles.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.

" As the main objective of the Sulvasutras was to describe the constructions of altars and the geometric principles involved in them, the subject of Pythagorean triples, even if it had been well understood may still not have featured in the Sulvasutras.

Fox seems to have had no desire to found a sect but only to proclaim what he saw as the pure and genuine principles of Christianity in their original simplicity, though he afterward showed great prowess as a religious legislator in the organization he gave to the new society.