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Chinese teacher and thinker · 551–479 BC · Philosophy
A minor official from the state of Lu whose sayings on ritual, family and good government shaped East Asian life for two and a half thousand years.
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“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; this is knowledge.”
Confucius, Analects II
Kong Qiu was born in Lu during the Spring and Autumn period, when the Zhou order was breaking apart. He held office briefly, then spent years travelling between states trying to persuade rulers to govern by moral example rather than force. None of them listened for long. He taught instead, and his students later collected his remarks in the Analects — short, often blunt exchanges about filial duty, ritual propriety, and the character of the junzi, the person of integrity. He said he transmitted rather than created. Han dynasty scholars made his teaching the backbone of the civil service examinations, and it stayed there until 1905.
You can put that to the Confucius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Confucius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 551–479 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Confucius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Confucius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 551–479 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Confucius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Confucius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 551–479 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Confucius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Confucius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 551–479 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Confucius persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Confucius’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 551–479 BC, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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