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Confucius

What is Confucianism? Maybe it sound like a part of religion but it’s not. It is a major system of ethics based on the teaching of Confucius who lived from 551 to 479 B.C.E. He was a greatest man in China history. His thoughts had strongest influenced in china society over two thousands years that disciplined every individual characters to value of life which including humanity, love, moral and ethics. He provided politics institution some background to rule people in comparable humanity. Confucianism has spread through widely from China to other neighbor countries such as Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and among Western society.

Confucius is deprived from Latinized form of Chinese characters, Kong Fuzi which mean great Master Kong, who was born in a small State “Lu” China. He grew up in a poor family after his father passed away when he was young. Therefore, He knew only education to gain the knowledge in order to have a better life. He was desire for study from his earliest childhood. He believed that music and poetry were two skills necessary for complete education. He was passionate making poetries. He edited a “ Book of poetry” to become in the five popular classic books, which summarize


After he died, his philosophies were being strongly influenced and widely spread over the China. But his teaching style was difference than other great teachers in ancient the world. What he taught was not much written down to conclude his contribution. He taught by mean of his conversation and example in real life. Therefore, his students were trying to recall and reinstate of their conversation with him. This process was taken generation to another generations to come up with the result. The purely volume of Confucius as we know today is “saying of Confucius”

During this time, China was falling into apart which each province or state is ruled under different governors. The civil wars were unrest until the ruler conquered others’ territory. There was only one solution that he could think was teaching. His brilliant idea was gathering potential people and taught them to become gentlemen. He expected his disciples to spread his wisdom to those rulers to apply his philosophy to reform the society. He defined the person who qualified himself was a gentlemen. A person who need to developed into five different virtues which were diligence, good faith, magnanimity, kindness, and courtesy. A man who passed with five virtual of descriptions should be employed by government. One of the most thoughtful philosophies that he contributed to China society which is described the whole man of duty. “Do not do to the others what you not want they do to you” He believed this concept which emphasized the ideals of order and harmony that people should live each in peaceful and with nature.

Confucianism take deeply root into our mind and is a part of our life. Even though Confucius is no longer exist in our world but his words still strongly remain in Asian culture, the basic ethics is still applied in our family and politics today. Courtesy, kindness, generous, good faith, and diligent are five basic moral who conducting are qualified a noble person.

After Confucius, there were two most important Confucian philosophers were Mencius (ca.371-ca289 BCE) and Xunzi (fl.289-238). Both of them came from original the same master of Confucianism but the

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