|
| |
| | Confucius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Although Confucianism is often followed in a religious manner by the Chinese, arguments continue over whether it is a religion, because it makes little reference to theological or spiritual matters (god(s), the afterlife, etc.). | | | When he was about 60, he returned home and spent the last years of his life teaching an increasing number of disciples by sharing his experiences with them and transmitting the old wisdom via a set of books called the Five Classics. | | | In China, there are many temples where representations of Buddha, Lao Zi and Confucius are found together. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confucius
(2523 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius |
| | Confucius' teachings and biography were written many years after his death and were edited by his disciples. | | | Confucius says, "He who has put himself in the wrong with heaven has no means of expiation left." (Analects 3:13) The Bible teaches our core problem is that we are separated from God and in need of a savior. | | | Confucius did not instigate a new religion, but he introduced a philosophy of ethics. |
|
http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/confucius.html
(3075 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius |
| | In his youth, Confucius was fascinated by Chinese tradition and ritual, and came to see his calling in imparting that tradition and ritual to present and future generations. | | | Expelled from Lu, Confucius and many of his followers became itinerant teachers throughout eastern China, where many state rulers welcomed them. | | | In its original form, it denigrated the acquisitive individualism of the entrepreneur: Confucius grieved when his disciple Zukong became a thriving businessman. |
|
http://www.thoemmes.com/404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/confucius.htm
(1115 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius |
| | Confucius also claimed that he enjoyed a special and privileged relationship with Heaven and that, by the age of fifty, he had come to understand what Heaven had mandated for him and for mankind. | | | Elsewhere in the Analects, Confucius says to his disciple Zilu that the first thing he would do in undertaking the administration of a state is zhengming. | | | Confucius is willing to teach anyone, whatever their social standing, as long as they are eager and tireless. |
|
http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/archives/fall2004/entries/confucius
(3320 words)
|
|
| |
| | A Ready Defense - Confucianism |
| | It must be remembered that Confucius taught an ethical philosophy that later germinated into a popular religion, though Confucius had no idea that his teachings would become the state religion in China. | | | Confucius believed China could be saved if the people would seek for the good of others, a practice of their ancestors. | | | Confucius was born Chiu King, the youngest of eleven children, about 550 B.C., in the principality of Lu, which is located in present-day Shantung. |
|
http://www.whoisjesus.org/english/resources/areadydefense/ch26
(2575 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | What Confucius claimed to transmit was the Dao (Way) of the sages of Zhou antiquity; in the Analects, he is the erudite guardian of tradition who challenges his disciples to emulate the sages of the past and restore the moral integrity of the state. | | | Nonetheless, it is Mencius' interpretation of Confucius’ thought - especially after the ascendancy of Zhu Xi's brand of Confucianism in the twelfth century CE - that became regarded as orthodox by most Chinese thinkers. | | | As with the person of Confucius himself, scholars disagree about the origins and character of the Analects, but it remains the traditional source for information about Confucius' life and teaching. |
|
http://www.iep.utm.edu/c/confuciu.htm
(4364 words)
|
|
| |
| | Ethics of Confucius, Mencius and Xun-zi by Sanderson Beck |
| | Confucius believed that his mission was to spread the culture that had been passed on to him by King Wen, and trusting that this was the will of heaven he did not even fear an assassin. | | | Confucius believed that people were similar by nature but became different by practice, and thus there are some one can join in study, others one can join in progress along the way, others again beside whom one can take one's stand, and finally some whom one can join in counsel. | | | Confucius was willing to teach and learn with anyone who came to him; once he even accepted an uncapped youth, though he stated that he was not responsible for what the youth did when he left. |
|
http://www.san.beck.org/EC14-Confucian.html
(16056 words)
|
|
| |
| | Chinese Philosophy - Confucianism (www.chinaknowledge.de) |
| | Like for many philosophers and religion founders, there is a grotesk contrast of the practical successfulness of Confucius and is posthumous religious veneration. | | | From the Song Dynasty on, when Confucianism run through a renaissance after the great age of Buddhism, it became a bonding agent for intellectual and national unity, an exhibit for the exclusivity of conservative Chinese culture. | | | In a multistate world where the rulers started to make use of state-emploryed officials instead of hereditary nobles, Confucius looked for the ideals of the old times to conserve the everchanging new society. |
|
http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Classics/confucius.html
(1222 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucianism, Confucius, symbols, the Jen |
| | In the "Great Learning" Confucius revealed the process, step by step, by which self-development is attained and by which it flows over into the common life to serve the state and bless mankind. | | | Some say that Confucianism is no religion in reality, because Confucius is a philosopher, moralist, statesman and educationist, but no religionist. | | | after his death he is the Chinese most influential in the history of China, and had all the honors he never had in life: The Government ordered the "worship of Confucius", and named him the "Co-Assessor with the deities of Heaven and Earth". |
|
http://www.religion-cults.com/Eastern/Confucianism/confuci.htm
(1089 words)
|
|
| |
| | CONFUCIUS: Life, Teachings, and Quotes |
| | She told Confucius that her husband, her husband's father, and her son were killed by a tiger. | | | He was arrested once and jailed for five days, and at 62 he was pursued, along with his disciples, into the countryside by a band of soldiers sent by jealous nobles, until he was able to send a messenger to the sympathetic king of a nearby country, who sent his own soldiers to rescue them. | | | Confucius left his office in 496 BC, traveling about and teaching, vainly hoping that some other prince would allow him to undertake measures of reform. |
|
http://www.1000ventures.com/business_guide/crosscuttings/cultures_confucius.html
(3078 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius, a Great Educator in Chinese History - with picture of confucius, confucius analects, confucius biography, ... |
| | When asked why she was weeping like that, she said to Confucius, still sobbing, "My father-in-law, my husband and my son had all been eaten up by tigers at this place. | | | When people learned about this, many of them sent their children to him to be educated. | | | "But the government here is not that tyrannous!" On hearing this, Confucius turned to his students and said, "So you see, a tyrannous government is even more to be feared than fierce tigers, even harsher. |
|
http://www.chinavoc.com/history/dongzhou/confucius.htm
(1007 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius and Confucianism Resources at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base |
| | Confucius (K'ung Fu Tzu, Kongfuzi) was a Chinese philosopher who gave his name to Confucianism, the philosophy, religion and state orthodoxy of China for thousands of years. | | | Little is known about him in the West - many people ask the question "Who was Confucius?" and others wonder "What is Confucianism?" This website has been designed to give an introduction to Confucius, Confucianism and the many aspects of Chinese philosophy, culture, religion and history, of which Confucianism is an integral part. | | | There are essays, original texts of "The Analects", "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "The Great Learning", as well as opportunities to buy a great many books on the subject of Confucius and Confucianism... |
|
http://www.erraticimpact.com/~ancient/html/confucius.htm
(261 words)
|
|
| |
| | Island of Freedom - Confucius Corner |
| | In the view of some scholars, Confucius will be revered in the future as China's greatest teacher; Confucian classics will be studied, and Confucian virtues, embodied for countless generations in the familiar sayings and common-sense wisdom of the Chinese people, will remain the cornerstone of ethics. | | | Rulers, he said, can be great only if they themselves lead exemplary lives, and were they willing to be guided by moral principles, their states would inevitably become prosperous and happy. | | | Confucius rejected both options and turned to tradition. |
|
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/confucius.htm
(1753 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius |
| | But Confucius was no religious leader nor did he claim any special divine status (nor was any divine status claimed for him). | | | No matter what religion, no matter what form of government, the Chinese (and most other East Asian civilizations) and their way of thinking can in some way be shown to have Confucian elements about them. | | | Like his contemporaries, Confucius believed that the human order in some way reflected the divine order, or the patterns of heaven. |
|
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/CHPHIL/CONF.HTM
(522 words)
|
|
| |
| | URI Kids :: World Religions |
| | If you live in peace and harmony, then you will be in contact with the spiritual forces of the universe, including nature. | | | Many people practice a combination of these religions. | | | Confucius believed that "Heaven is the author of the virtue that is in me." He meant that he saw heaven itself as a kind of god, the god or supreme being who created virtue in us. |
|
http://www.uri.org/kids/other_conf.htm
(274 words)
|
|
| |
| | What Confucius Thought |
| | Confucius said that "In serving one's ruler one deals reverently with the tasks involved and makes the livelihood involved a secondary consideration" (15:38, Analects), and "A public servant who is intent on the Way, but is ashamed of bad clothes and bad food, is not at all fit to be consulted" (4:9, Analects). | | | If there is no important reason, officials of long standing are not cast out; and he avoids | | | Confucius advised his students that if they would "show solicitude for parents at the end of their lives and continue this with sacrifices when they are far away," then "the people's virtue will be restored to fullness" (Book 1: #9, pg. |
|
http://www.heptune.com/confuciu.html
(1758 words)
|
|
| |
| | Electronic Passport to Confucius |
| | The teachings of Confucius remained an important part of Chinese education until the Communist Revolution in 1945. | | | Confucius understood that there could be peace and justice under a good government. | | | Confucius was a sage, or a very wise man. He was not well known when he was alive, but today he is the most remembered person from ancient China. |
|
http://www.mrdowling.com/613-confucius.html
(387 words)
|
|
| |
| | Qufu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In total, 12 different emperors paid 20 personal visits to Qufu to worship Confucius. | | | The family mansion was inhabited by descendants of Confucius until 1937, when Confucius' descendant in the 76th generation fled to Taiwan. | | | The descendants of Confucius lived in the Kong family mansion located to the east of the temple. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qufu
(1323 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius Home Page - VirtualTourist.com |
| | Over 707,065 Members share their travel experience, unbiased tips, reviews, and pictures. | | | "Yes, I am indeed the same Confucius from Lonely Planet Thorn Tree Northeast Asia branch!" | | | China at a Glance: Must See and Must Avoid: |
|
http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/46443
(267 words)
|
|
| |
| | Confucius - Wikiquote |
| | Wikisource has original works written by or about Confucius. | | | Translation: "By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart." | | | Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC) Chinese philosopher |
|
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius
(5046 words)
|
|
|
