Eng 2800
Week 1 reading

Jack Sardar

P. 1330-1334

Confucius was around the period 551-479 BCE. His ideas were spread throughout Asia. Confucianism was the system of beliefs and practices that were developed over time by Confucius himself. Confucius took office but was very disturbed when he was the rebellious people in the government. He escaped from Lu and decided to go and seek a government that is run the right way. However, after searching for a while he gave up and returned to Lu to become a teacher and to lead by example. Confucius always said that to stop the illegal political behavior we need to return to the moral values of the Zhou dynasty. Analects means the collected sayings that was given by Confucius to his students and they decided to save them and record them since Confucianism was known and continued to be passed down. In the analect it says if you make social life meaningful and perfect it then you reach the status of being a Junzi. It’s interesting that Confucius doesn’t say he’s a Junzi.