Although Confucius claimed that he never invented anything but was only transmitting ancient knowledge ( see Analects VII, 1 ), he did produce a number of new ideas.

Although Confucius claimed that he never invented anything but was only transmitting ancient knowledge ( see Analects VII, 1 ), he did produce a number of new ideas.

Unlike Taoism, the religious aspects found in Confucianism ( worship of Confucius and his disciples, worship of Tian, rituals and sacrifices ) never took independent form and have thus remained for centuries part of Shenism.

Religious aspects promoted by Confucianism include the establishment of temples for ancestral worship of Confucius and his disciples, knowledge and worship of Tian, ritual and sacrifice ; however, over the centuries Confucianism never developed an official institutional structure as Taoism did, and its religious aspects never completely detached from Chinese folk religion.

He thought that, since he was not capable enough, he would never be able to achieve the level that Confucius was teaching, so why did he need to study carefully?

In the Analects he grudgingly allows that playing Liubo and Go is better than being idle, and according to the apocryphal Family Sayings of Confucius he stated that he would not play the game as it promoted bad habits.

In the book, it was stated that a man named Yan Hui described to Confucius how he forgot and cast aside knowledge.

Confucius ' analysis of the need to raise officials ' behaviour to reflect the way that they identify and describe themselves is known as the rectification of names, and he stated that the rectification of names should be the first responsibility of a ruler upon taking office ( Analects 13. 3 ).

He was a man of Qi, and his age is stated as twenty-nine and thirty-nine years younger than Confucius.

The politburo members Li Changchun and Liu Yunshan have repeatedly stressed that Chinese propaganda should be equally spread both domestically and internationally, and Li Changchun stated that the Confucius Institutes are " an important channel to glorify Chinese culture, to help Chinese culture spread to the world ", which is " part of China's foreign propaganda strategy ".

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.

It is a question much debated whether he was the same with Nangong Zhang-shu, who accompanied Confucius to the court of Zhou, or not.

But whether he really was a disciple of Confucius, and in personal communication with him, is much debated.

Although Confucius the man may have been a believer in Chinese folk religion, Confucianism as an ideology is humanistic and non-theistic, and does not involve a belief in the supernatural or in a personal god.

Mendelssohn answered in an open letter in December 1769: " Suppose there were living among my contemporaries a Confucius or a Solon, I could, according to the principles of my faith, love and admire the great man without falling into the ridiculous idea that I must convert a Solon or a Confucius.

Connie: George Webster Confucius, a Chinese man Terry and Pat hire as a guide.

The importance of filial piety can be expressed in this quote from " The Analects of Confucius ", " Yu Tzu said, ‘ It is rare for a man whose character is such that he is good as a son and obedient as a young man to have the inclination to transgress against his superiors ; it is unheard of for one who has no such inclination to be inclined to start a rebellion.

Elias Canetti wrote: " Confucius ' Analects is the oldest complete intellectual and spiritual portrait of a man.

Oher agent-centered theories amongst contemporary thinkers such as Bernard Williams seek to revive the old concept ( associated for example with Aristotle and Confucius, that the right action is the action that a person of good character ( the " great-souled man " as Aristotle said ) will perform.

He also left a number of works that have not been edited: " Historia de la Escritura " ( History of Writing ); " Paleografía universal " ( Universal Paleography ); " Moral de Confucio " ( the Moral of Confucius ); " Historia de las primeras colonias de América " ( History of the first American colonies ); " El hombre vuelto á la religión " ( The man turned to religion ), as well as tracts of a controversial or theological nature.

The wise man will accept this fate without complaint, but will not be fooled by all the nonsense of Confucius and Mozi about inherent virtue, universal love, and a good name: morality is a deception practised upon the simple by the clever ; universal love is the delusion of children, who do not know the universal enmity that forms the law of life ; and a good name is a posthumous bauble which the fools who paid so dearly for it cannot enjoy.

' Confucius said, ' If to your present ability there were added the results of learning, you would be a very superior man.

In my serving of Confucius, I am like a thirsty man who goes with his pitcher to the river, and there he drinks his fill, without knowing the river's depth.

Nin tells the emperor that he and the princess are in love, and questions the Persian Prince about the scrolls of Confucius and Mencius, saying that a wise man will not tear two lovers apart.

The carvings at Toshogu Shrine were carved by Hidari Jingoro, and believed to have incorporated Confucius ’ s Code of Conduct, using the monkey as a way to depict man ’ s life cycle.

When he was twelve he took to reading St. Augustine and Aquinas, then Lao-tse, Confucius, Mencius, Suzuki, Hindu tomes by endless Krishnaists and numerous socio-archaeological papers.

He also was a promoter of the New Text school, which considered Confucius as a divine figure and a spiritual ruler of China, who foresaw and started the evolution of the world towards the Universal Peace.

It is particularly relevant for the social class to which most of Confucius ' students belonged, because the only way for an ambitious young scholar to make his way in the Confucian Chinese world was to enter a ruler's civil service.

The Analects, the main source of the Confucianism of Confucius, actually has little to say on the matter of filial piety and some sources believe the concept was focused on by later thinkers as a response to Mohism.

Matteo Ricci was among the very earliest to report on the thoughts of Confucius, and father Prospero Intorcetta wrote about the life and works of Confucius in Latin in 1687.

The French philosopher Voltaire was also influenced by Confucius, seeing the concept of Confucian rationalism as an alternative to Christian dogma.

He also was a promoter of the New Text school, which considered Confucius as a divine figure and a spiritual ruler of China, who foresaw and started the evolution of the world towards the Universal Peace.

Confucius ( 551 – 479 BCE ) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history.

Confucius ' family and personal name respectively was " Kong Qiu " ( 孔丘 Kǒng ​ Qiū ).

The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

In 1 AD, Confucius was given his first posthumous name, the " Laudably Declarable Lord Ni " ( 褒成宣尼公 ).

Confucius was said to have been a descendant of the Shang kings or priests through the Dukes of Song.

It is generally thought that Confucius was born in 551 BCE.

Kong He died when Confucius was three years old.

As a child, Confucius was raised by his mother in poverty.

A year later, the couple had their first child, Kong Li ( 孔鯉 ), both of whom Confucius was to abandon to develop his ideologies.

When his mother died, Confucius ( aged 23 ) is reported to have mourned for three years as was the tradition.

Zhong You was one of the disciples of Confucius and was arranged the position of govenor at the Ji family by Confucius.