Confusius

Confusius was born in 551 BCE in Northwest China. His father died when Confusius was only 3, and was left to live in poverty with his mother. As the Chou Dynasty ends, the rival warlords start fighting. There were mass executions, wars, and multiple people were used as various items during those times. At a young age Confusius develops ideas of goodness used to hold society together, and society would be in harmony is everyone did only what they were supposed to do or just perform their own duty. Confusius soon gets a governement job, he feels he can finally put his ideas into pratice, but many in the governemtn do not like his ideas. Confusius encourages subordinates to speak out if superior makes a mistake. He is fired. He spends the rest of his life as a wnadering teacher. Confusius dies in 479 BCE at the age of seventy-two. The Han Dynasty makes Confusianism the offical state philosophy.

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