Confucius spoke much about the perfect gentleman. In his preaching, Confucius described how to become a perfect gentleman. He believed that by spending time finding errors in others, a person would be able to find errors within himself. “The Master said, it is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.” (Lau, 62) By finding errors in one’s self a person then would be able to correct them and be o

ne step closer to becoming the ideal gentleman. Confucius believed that when someone spent a lot of time with friends and family that they should just listen to them talk. Just by listening to them talk one would be able to pick up traits on how to become an ideal gentleman. “The Master said, ‘when you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self.” (Lau, 74) A person should also talk in order to get to know other people better, and by talking he can figure out what he knows and doesn’t know about being the ideal gentleman. Confucius also thought that it was important to criticize others in order to take their mistakes and compare them to your own so that they could be one step closer to becoming the ideal gentleman. To be an ideal gentleman a person must not stay confined to himself but must go out and socialize so that they know how to act in a formal matter. In order to become the ideal gentleman a person must have morals.

Confucius spent a great deal of his time trying to teach people how to become the ideal gentleman, and how to go about it in a moral way. Confucius didn’t give them direct answers to how to live as the ideal gentleman, instead he taught them to find the answers within others and themselves. Some people think that Confucius never existed, that he was an ancient myth. Though Confucius might not have lived physically, he will live forever in or actions and views.

In order to be truly moral, Confucius set up stages that people would have to go through. He used references of his own life as a teaching for others. “The Master said, ‘At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I

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