WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Confucianism is an ancient Chinese belief system, which focuses on the importance of personal ethics and morality.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ruler’s main function in the Confucian state was to educate and transform the people. This was ideally accomplished not by legal regulation and coercion, but by personal rule, moral example, and mediation in disputes by the emperor and his officials.

Detailed explanation-3: -Confucianism advocates love with distinctions-one always loves one’s family first and then moves outward. Mencius said, “support your own parents and raise your own children first (so others will fellow), then others, ‘’ and “in poverty, take care of yourself; when prosperous, contribute to the well-being of all.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Confucius considered himself a transmitter for the values of earlier periods which he claimed had been abandoned in his time. His philosophical teachings, called Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, kindness, and sincerity.

Detailed explanation-5: -Confucius’ ethics basically asserts that filial piety and fraternal love are the roots of humaneness, the foundation and origin of human morality; all social goods are extensions of family ethics.