Confucius

551 BC - 479 BC

Titles on this disk:

• author: The Chinese Classics: Vol. 1. The Life and Teachings of Confucius (Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean)
• author: The Ethics of Confucius
• author: The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism. Part I The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King
• 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

Quotation:

• (12 May, 2008) 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 (520 BC)

About this person:

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