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

Detailed explanation-3: -The Confucian answer to the problem of China’s disorder was very different from that of the Legalists. Not laws and punishments, but the moral example of superiors was the Confucian key to a restored social harmony.

Detailed explanation-4: -What was the Confucius answer to China’s disorder problem? o The solution to China’s problems are the moral example of superiors to restore a social harmony.

Detailed explanation-5: -Confucius tried to restore ancient Chinese values by making the government better. He helped create the basis of a bureaucracy. This is a system of departments and agencies for running the government. He also worked on the importance of family relationships, he thought, were the most important.

Detailed explanation-6: -Confucian ethics focuses on the structure of human relationships, and in particular on the core relationship of the family which provides an idealized model for all other relationships.