551 BCE - 479 BCE

Nationality:
Chinese

Historical Period:
Ancient Asia

Groups

• Goodrich Seminar Room

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.

For additional information about Confucius see the following:

• in the Forum: the Goodrich Seminar Room entry on Confucius

Titles:

• Author: The Analects
• Author: The Chinese Classics: Vol. 1. The Life and Teachings of Confucius
• Author: The Ethics of Confucius
• Author: The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism. Part I
• Author: The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV. The Li Ki, XI-XLVI
• Author: The Shi King, the Old “Poetry Classic” of the Chinese

Quotations:

• Confucius edited this collection of poems which contains a poem about "Yellow Birds" who ravenously eat the crops of the local people, thus alienating them completely (520 BC)

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