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Confucious

 

            Confucius is the Latinized form of K"ung Ch"iu or Master K"ung. Confucius was a man who showed wisdom. He taught moral code based on ethics, humanity and love. He taught his disciples the five virtues, these being courtesy, mag-nan-im-ity, good faith, diligence, and kindness. Confucius only taught to a small number of people saying "I shall not open up the truth, and I shall not help anyone who cannot express his ideas." He occupied some positions of authority becoming police commissioner of his home state. He only stayed in this position for a year before he went travelling for thirteen years looking for a ruler who would follow his guidance. Not being able to find this he returned home disappointed. "No intelligent ruler arises to take me as his master" he said "My time has come to die." But before his death he undertook a great writing task organising, writing and putting together the five Chinese classics. They were;.
            
             • Yi-Ching or book of change - it explains yin and yang and the main idea that circumstances are always changing.
            
             • Shu-ching or book of history - it is concerned with the Sage Kings of the Golden Age.
            
             • Shi Ching or book of odes - it consists of ballads and songs.
            
             • Ch"un Ch"iu - a record of events in the province of Lu where he lived.
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             • Li Chi or book of rites - a collection of directions on ceremonies.
             These five books provide the body of Confucius's writings which would later form the basis of Confucianism. .
             Within Confucianism there exists a strict code of ethics in which there are six different categories. .
            
             • Li - is a universal code of ethics called Tao. Tao is a way of life for all mankind and that it shows men "how to preserve a right relationship towards each of their fellow human beings, and how to establish a cosmic harmony between men, earth and heaven." .
            
             • Yi - meaning do what is morally right and show others to do this to.


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