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10 facts about confucius

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The man widely known in the English language as Confucius was born around 551 BCE in today’s southern Shandong Province. Confucius is the phonic translation of the Chinese word Kong fuzi 孔夫子, in which Kong 孔 was his surname and fuzi is an honorific for learned men.

Widely credited for creating the system of thought we now call Confucianism, this learned man insisted he was “not a maker but a transmitter”, merely “believing in and loving the ancients”. In this, Confucius could be seen as acting modestly and humbly, virtues he thought of highly.

Or, as Kang Youwei — a leading reformer in modern China has argued — Confucius tactically framed his revolutionary ideas as lost ancient virtues so his arguments would be met with fewer criticisms and less hostility.

Confucius looked nothing like the great sage in his own time as he is widely known in ours. To his contemporaries, he was perhaps foremost an unemployed political adviser who wandered around different fiefdoms for some years, attempting to sell his political ideas to different rulers — but never able to strike a deal.

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Confucius revisited : old texts, new speeches (continued)

In a second time, the perspective has been opened up to the fortunes of Confucius and his Entretiens closer to home, in Europe, with the aim of contextualizing our reading habits, now so deeply rooted that we no longer realize it. Two Confucius can be broadly distinguished, corresponding to two major " universalist " moments in Western history : first, the Confucius inherited from the Enlightenment ; then, the Confucius born of the world that emerged from the two world conflicts of the last century, and which is often referred to as the " post-Enlightenment ". The first moment, which was the subject of last year's lecture, concerns Europe and more specifically France where, in the ^17th-18th centuries, those then known as the " philosophes " relied on the testimonies of Jesuit missionaries to invent a " Confucius, philosophe des Chinois " in the image of the Enlightenment and to read the Entretiens as a philosophical work. Just a few d

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3.3 Classical Chinese Philosophy

Learning Objectives

By the end of this section, you will be able to:

Distinguish the three main schools of classical Chinese philosophy: Confucianism, Mohism, and Daoism.
Explain the five constant virtues of Confucian moral philosophy.
Identify the key principles of Mohism.
Evaluate Daoism’s approach to ethics.

In 2013, archaeologists made a remarkable discovery—Chinese characters on a stone axe dating to 5,000 years ago (Tang 2013). Previously, the earliest known Chinese characters had been dated to approximately 1600 BCE. The stone axe suggests that a written language was in use much earlier than previously thought.

The first written records referring to names, dates, and accounts that were part of Chinese prehistory, like the details of other prehistoric periods around the world, are unverifiable. But this discovery of very early writing suggests that what were once considered myths of Chinese history may have a basis in reality. The so-called Five Emperors and the great leaders Yao, Shun, and Yu are frequently referenced in earl