Summary Of Confucianism

Confucianism is created by Confucius. Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (1)

The philosophy of Confucius is called Confucianism. It was start with Confucius. It emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be suppressed in favor of the Legalists during the Qin Dynasty. Following the victory of Han over chu after the collapse of Qin, Confucius's thoughts received official sanction and were further developed into a system known as Confucianism. With further development in late hundred years,

In the late Tang, Confucianism developed in response to Buddhism and Taoism and was reformulated as Neo-Confucianism. This reinvigorated form was adopted as the basis of the imperial exams and the core philosophy of the scholar official class in the Song dynasty (960-1297). The abolition of the examination system in 1905 marked the end of official Confucianism. The New Culture intellectuals of the early twentieth century blamed Confucianism for China's weaknesses. They searched for new doctrines to replace Confucian teachings; some of these new ideologies include the "Three Principles of the People" with the establishment of the Republic of China, and then Maoism under the People's Republic of China. In the late twentieth century, some people credited Confucianism with the rise of the East Asian economy and it enjoyed a rise in popularity both in China and

As people known, he was in China during the spring and Autumn period, the great thinker, statesman and educator, the Confucian school founder. The doctrine of "benevolence" as the core, with the content, form a complete system of thought. He pioneered the private teaching of the wind, cultivating more than 3 thousand disciples. Old age in the ancient literature, delete "poetry", "book", set the "Li", "Le", as the "spring and autumn". "The Analects of Confucius" a book is the main basis for the existing study of its academic thinking. Since the Han Dynasty, Confucius’s theory was selected by ruling class in policy and Confucius was thought the highest sage. (6)

After Confucius died, his students inherited his theory and work for different country. As the times go, the Confucianism was known by every country. To get well in Confucianism is deny self and return to propriety. People will think about the Analects of Confucius and do it as a rule in daily life.

In Confucianism, Confucius didn’t mention the evil in his life, but his students have different opinion, some of them think people was evil when they born, some others don’t. “Mengzi” think people was kind when they born. “Xunzi” think people was evil when they born. Both those theory are thought the theory of