Saturday, November 19, 2011

Could someone compare and contrast Confucius and Aristotle?

I need help comparing the two; how are they alike, how are they similar. Nothing too detailed, just the basic things about them.|||Aristotle once said, “Man is by nature a political animal.” While this may be true, men are by no means bound to agree with one another regarding politics. In Confucius’ book The Analects and in Socrates’ book Crito, these philosophers offer differing solutions to the problems of their countries by addressing the areas of right conduct, effective government, and moral perfection. Their solutions differ because their respective cultures stressed very different morals.





Confucius believed that the most important virtue a person could have was a respect for the rules of propriety, the rules governing the attitudes of society. In The Analects, he said that “Respectfulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes laborious bustle; carefulness, without the rules of propriety, becomes timidity; boldness, without the rules of propriety, becomes insubordination; straightforwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.” He believed that without these rules, society would cease to function as a body.





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