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.

A core concept to Confucianism is Ren (" benevolent love ", 仁 ), which focuses on duty, action and attitude in a relationship rather than love itself.

The concept of Tao was later adopted in Confucianism, Chán and Zen Buddhism and more broadly throughout East Asian philosophy and religion in general.

Some scholars make sharp distinctions between moral or ethical usage of the word Dao that is prominent in Confucianism and religious Daoism and the more metaphysical usage of the term used in philosophical Daoism and most forms of Mahayana Buddhism ; others maintain that these are not separate usages or meanings, seeing them as mutually inclusive and compatible approaches to defining the concept.

As a formal religious concept in Confucianism, Dao is the Absolute towards which the faithful move.

In this book Kita explicitly promotes the platonic state authoritarianism emphasizing the close relationship between Confucianism and the " from above " concept of the national socialism stating that Mencius is the Plato of the East and that Plato's concept in organizing a society is far preferable than that of Marx's.

* De ( Chinese ), concept of " integrity " in Daoism and " virtue " in Confucianism

Because the proponents of the concept came from different cultural backgrounds, no single definition of the term exists, but typically " Asian values " encompass some influences of Confucianism, in particular loyalty towards the family, corporation, and nation ; the forgoing of personal freedom for the sake of society's stability and prosperity ; the pursuit of academic and technological excellence ; and work ethic and thrift.

In Malaysia and Singapore, the concept of Asian values was embraced partly because it reconciled Islam, the religion of the Malays, with the Confucianism of the ethnic Chinese, and Hinduism, thereby helping to create a sense of common values between different ethnic and religious groups in those countries, as well as forming an ideology that they could call their own which is different from their understanding of the West.

* East Asian religions consist of several East Asian religions which make use of the concept of Tao ( in Chinese ) or Dō ( in Japanese or Korean ), namely Taoism and Confucianism, both of which are asserted by some scholars to be non-religious in nature.

The concept of Heaven ( Tian, 天 ) is found pervasively in Confucianism.

* Ren ( Confucianism ), Confucian concept

Tao is a metaphysical concept found in Taoism, Confucianism, and more generally in ancient Chinese philosophy.

The concept of family is important in classical Confucianism.

Confucianism focuses on the cultivation of virtue and maintenance of ethics, the most basic of which are ren, yi, and li.

In Confucianism, the term " li " (), sometimes translated into English as rituals, customs, rites, etiquette, or morals, refers to any of the secular social functions of daily life, akin to the Western term for culture.

It is important to note that, although li is sometimes translated as " ritual " or " rites ", it has developed a specialized meaning in Confucianism, as opposed to its usual religious meanings.

The main branch of Confucianism, however, argues that human nature must be nurtured through ritual ( li 理 ), culture ( wen 文 ) and other things, while the Daoists argued that the trappings of society were to be gotten rid of.

A main idea of Confucianism is the cultivation of virtue and the development of moral perfection.

Confucianism is a Chinese ethical and philosophical system developed from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius ( 孔夫子 Kǒng Fūzǐ, or K ' ung-fu-tzu, lit.

The core of Confucianism is humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation.

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.

Strictly speaking, there is no term in Chinese which directly corresponds to " Confucianism.

In this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.

Humanism is at the core in Confucianism.

In practice, the primary foundation and function of Confucianism is as an ethical philosophy to be practiced by all the members of a society.

The term jūnzǐ () is crucial to classical Confucianism.

It is postulated that certain elements of Leibniz's philosophy, such as " simple substance " and " preestablished harmony ", were borrowed from his interactions with Confucianism.

Especially the works of Liu Zhu such as Tiānfāng Diǎnlǐ （ 天方典禮 ） sought to harmonize Islam with not only Confucianism but Daoism and is considered to be one of the crowning achievements of the Chinese Muslim culture.

There is consensus among scholars that, whether or not it is religious, Confucianism is definitively non-theistic.

Confucianism is humanistic, and does not involve a belief in the supernatural or in a personal god.

" With the latter definition, Confucianism is religious, even if non-theistic, in the sense that it " performs some of the basic psycho-social functions of full-fledged religions ", in the same way that non-theistic ideologies like Communism do.

The Analects stress the importance of ritual, but also the importance of ' ren ', which loosely translates as ' human-heartedness, Confucianism, along with Legalism, is responsible for creating the world ’ s first meritocracy, which holds that one's status should be determined by education and character rather than ancestry, wealth, or friendship.

Confucianism is a philosophical school developed from the teachings of the sage collected in the Analects of Confucius.

Although it serves as a rival to Confucianism, a school of active morality, this rivalry is compromised and given perspective by the idiom " practise Confucianism on the outside, Taoism on the inside.

New Confucianism is an intellectual movement of Confucianism that began in the early 20th century in Republican China, and revived in post-Mao era contemporary China.

Tea is connected closely with Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.

Whereas the ancient and medieval thought of Japan was tied closely to Buddhism, the early modern thought of Japan was mainly Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism, which was designated for official study of the Tokugawa shogunate.

While there have been only rare studies on Korean aesthetics, a useful place to begin for understanding how Korean art developed an aesthetic is in Korean philosophy, and related articles on Korean Buddhism, and Korean Confucianism.

Confucianism, especially of the type argued for by Mencius (), argued that the ideal ruler is the one who ( as Confucius put it ) " acts like the North Star, staying in place while the other stars orbit around it ".

The Doctrine of the Mean (), is both a doctrine of Confucianism, and also the title of one of the Four Books of Confucian philosophy.