- EAN13
- 9782381118529
- Éditeur
- Human and Literature Publishing
- Date de publication
- 27/10/2023
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
The Influence of Confucius
The Chinese Sage
R. K. Douglas, Herbert Allen Giles
Human and Literature Publishing
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Aide EAN13 : 9782381118529
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Confucius is the Latinized name of Kung Futusze, or "Master Kung" whose work
in China did much to educate the people in social and civic virtues. He began
as a political reformer at a time when the empire was cut up into a number of
petty and discordant principalities. As a practical statesman and
administrator, he urged the necessity of reform upon the princes whom one
after another he served. His advice was invariably disregarded, and as he said
"no intelligent ruler arose in his time." His great maxims of submission to
the emperor or supreme head of the state he based on the analogous duty of
filial obedience in a household, and his very spirit of piety prevented him
from taking independent measures for redressing the evils and oppressions of
his distracted country.
His moral teachings are not based on any specific religious foundation, but
they have become the settled code of Chinese life, of which submissiveness to
authority, industry, frugality, and fair dealing as prescribed by Confucian
ethics are general characteristics. The political doctrines of this great
reformer were eventually adopted, and his teaching and example brought about a
peaceful and gradual, but complete revolution, in the Chinese Empire, whose
consolidation into a simple kingdom was the practical result of this sage's
influence.
*[XXe]: 20e siècle
in China did much to educate the people in social and civic virtues. He began
as a political reformer at a time when the empire was cut up into a number of
petty and discordant principalities. As a practical statesman and
administrator, he urged the necessity of reform upon the princes whom one
after another he served. His advice was invariably disregarded, and as he said
"no intelligent ruler arose in his time." His great maxims of submission to
the emperor or supreme head of the state he based on the analogous duty of
filial obedience in a household, and his very spirit of piety prevented him
from taking independent measures for redressing the evils and oppressions of
his distracted country.
His moral teachings are not based on any specific religious foundation, but
they have become the settled code of Chinese life, of which submissiveness to
authority, industry, frugality, and fair dealing as prescribed by Confucian
ethics are general characteristics. The political doctrines of this great
reformer were eventually adopted, and his teaching and example brought about a
peaceful and gradual, but complete revolution, in the Chinese Empire, whose
consolidation into a simple kingdom was the practical result of this sage's
influence.
*[XXe]: 20e siècle
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