Confucius?

Can anyone tell me about the life of Confusius? Just any information about him?|||K'ung Fu-tzu - Confucius (551 - 479 B.C.E.)





Confucius, (551-479 BC -- Wade-Giles K'ung-fu-tzu or Pinyin Kongfuzi), or Master K'ung, whose life defines the end of the Spring and Autumn Period in Chinese history, becomes long after his death the dominant Chinese philosopher both morally and politically.


In the Warring States Period Mencius (Meng Tzu) (c.390-305 BC) extended and systematized Confucius's ideas; but with Confucius's adoption in the H脿n Dynasty as the official moral and political doctrine of the State, the Confucian tradition became so broad that "Scholar" or "Literatus" became all but synonymous with "Confucian," and so Confucianism could simply be called the Ju Chia], or School of the Literati -- one of the Six Schools of Chinese philosophy. As one of the "Three Ways," or (the three "doctrines" or religions), together with Taoism and Buddhism, Confucianism also grew into one of the traditional religions of the H脿n Chinese.





In the year 551 BC, the famous thinker and educator of ancient China, Confucius, was born at today's Qufu in Shandong Province, to a family that was far from being well-to-do. But he was an earnest and hard-working pupil even in his childhood. When a young man of a little over twenty, he became a minor official of the state. Since he was very knowledgeable and serious in work, he achieved great distinction in the job and thus became quite well-known by the time he turned thirty. Confucius had been to many of the principalities of the time, advocating his political views and seeking to have his service accepted by the princes in administering their states. But his views and opinions seemed to have fallen on deaf ears and consequently Confucius made up his mind to devote all his energies to education. When people learned about this, many of them sent their children to him to be educated. They were accepted one and all and so Confucius became the first man in the history of Chinese education to start a private school.





Confucius was a dedicated educator, having accepted a total of 3000 students in his life of whom seventy-two were outstanding scholars. Through educational work, Confucius succeeded in propagating his political views. Eventually he and his students e-merged as an independent school of thought, the Confucius School which exerted a tremendous impact on feudalist China which lasted thousands of years.





Confucius lived until he was seventy-three and his death was deeply mourned by his students. Some of them stayed for as long as three years by the side of his grave and Zi Lu topped all by staying there alone for another three years. In order not to forget his teachings, Confucius's students wrote down all his dialogues with them. Later they set about collecting and editing what Confucius had said on other questions and how he had dealt with various problems and situations. All this was written into a classic of the Confucian School - The Confucian Analects.|||Probably the great chinese philospher of all time.|||His was very educated and his wisdom was valued by many... but not everyone seemed to approve of his teaching method. he seemed to upset the parents of some rich kid.|||Confucius was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher influencing thought and life, personal and governmental morality (morality is manner, character, and proper behavior), correctness of relationships, justice and sincerity (moral excellence or a virtue of speaking truly about one's feelings, thoughts, and desires). The thinking part is something you can do when relating from your 'past' to your present 'dilemmas'. This thinking may be the easy part whereas the social explaining may be difficult but enjoyably social.