Confucious

Confucious Philosophy 190 Confucius Confucius was a large believer that things should be based on virtue, and not on blood. Confucius stated that the ideal person was one of good moral character. The ideal person was also truly reverent in worship and sincerely respected his father and his ruler. He was expected to think for himself, guided by definite rules of conduct. Confucius believed that this type of behavior by rulers had a greater effect on the people than did laws or codes of punishment. So when these types of people were rulers, their moral example would inspire the people to lead good lives. Confucius taught four things: culture, conduct, loyalty, and truthfulness. Confucius taught many topics around these subjects, but the most importance of these is the propriety, ritual and the Way of being a Gentleman. From these to achieve the Jen, if we are to achieve a state of orderliness and peace, we need to return to traditional values of virtue. These values are based entirely on one concept: Jen, which is best, translated as "benevolence." The rules of propriety offered a code of accepted behavior that demonstrated to themselves and others that they were cultured and confucius, mencius, people, way, believed, about, propriety, good, should, respect, one, rules, ruler, moral, learning, conduct, both, yourself, think, things, taught, spoke, must, man, jen, goodness, based, according, wisdom, whom, virtue, values, superior, state, someone, rulers, ritual, put, provide, proper, prevails, prevail, power, position, political, person, order, need, nature, large