Front Page Authors (by Period) Confucius

Confucius

551 BC - 479 BC

About the Author

Confucius is China’s most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist. In a time of great political upheaval, he sought an intellectual basis for a stable political and social order which he believed lay with a ruler who would rule with wisdom and virtue and would be opposed to force and violence.

In The Library:

• author: The Analects (1910)
• author: The Ethics of Confucius (1915)
• author: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV. The Li Ki, XI-XLVI (1885)
• editor: The Shi King, the Old “Poetry Classic” of the Chinese (1891)