2. When and Where
• Confucianism was
founded by: Kong
Qiu
• When: 551-479 BCE
• Where: in Lou
modern day
Shandong.
3. Kong Qiu
• Confucian was a
Chinese teacher, a
politician but wasn’t
successful as a
government official,
and a philosopher of
the Spring and
Autumn period.
4. Philosophy
• Was the Daoism-the
tradition of self
cultivation and the
way of virtue. The
concept of this was
to find the way of
balance and
wisdom.
5. Impacts
• Confucian changed his disciples instructing them in the 6 arts; literature,
music, archery, charioting, calligraphy, and mathematics.
• He had many philosophies with the concepts of righteousness, propriety,
wisdom, faithfulness, loyalty, and filial piety. All to maintain Chinese social
structure to bring china into its former glory.
6. Quotes
• …” [his] mission was to restore social
and political harmony by reviving the
moral character of the ruling class
and the literature elite” (Adler1).
• “ the Chinese government
throughout this period of two
millennia had made his idea their
official state philosophy” (culturalchina).
7. Todays philosophy of Confucianism
• Confucianism explains
elements of the afterlife and
views regarding heaven, but
it is fairly indifferent with
some spiritual matter often
considered vital to religious
thought, such as the nature
of souls.
Temple of Confucianism
