Confucius
551 BCE–479 BCE
Nationality: Chinese
Historical Period: Ancient Asia
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
Quotes from Confucius:
- 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
- Confucius on Prudence and the Superior Man
Titles from Confucius:
- 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