Nov 14, 2009
Article abstract: Through Confucius’s disciples and followers, Confucianism became China’s official state philosophy in the second century b.c.e., and its texts became the basis of formal education. Confucianism remained the dominant philosophy of China until the early twentieth century and still has a major influence on people throughout East Asia.
The name Confucius is the latinized version of a formal title, Kong Fuzi, meaning the Master Kong. He was born as Kong Qiu (styled Zhong Ni) somewhere in the state of Lu (in the present-day...
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