WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Confucius felt that China was overrun with rude and dishonest people. Upset by the disorder and people’s lack of decency, Confucius said that the Chinese needed to return to ethics, or moral values (doing the right thing). His teachings and ideas became known as Confucianism.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Confucius was born in 551 BCE, at a time of great war and famine in China. As he observed the suffering around him, he realized the best way to transform a society was to shift people’s thinking-to move them from callousness to compassion.

Detailed explanation-4: -Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, politician, and teacher whose message of knowledge, benevolence, loyalty, and virtue were the main guiding philosophy of China for thousands of years. An ancient Chinese text recorded the height of Confucius as nine feet six inches tall.