So just who was Confucius, anyway? It’s a question I’ve been hearing a lot lately. Confucius: Who was he? A kind of Chinese Jesus? A martial arts master? A bitter old man with a long, wispy beard? A ...

Note: no sound] Tourists enjoy lanterns at Nanjing Confucius Temple in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, Jan. 16, 2025.

Confucius is a Chinese Philosopher, teacher, and political thinker also known as Kong Qiu. He lived from 551 to 479 BCE.

What would East Asia look like without Confucius? Would its core values of Ren (benevolence), Yi (righteousness), and Li (propriety) have been replaced by entirely different notions? BEIJING, Jan. 17, ...

Chinese philosopher Kongzi, also known as Confucius, put no faith in deities, preferring to focus on the here and now While ...

Description: Twenty-six centuries after their origination, the principles laid down in the Analects of Confucius still act as the foundation of Chinese philosophy, ethics, society and government, and ...

Confucius (551-479 B.C.) was a philosopher, teacher, and the founder of the Confucian school. He attached great importance to food and described it as one of the three basic conditions ...

The University of Minnesota’s Confucius Institute — part of a controversial web of Chinese-backed institutes hosted at universities across the U.S. — will close at the end of the semester. University ...

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the ...

Kresimir Jurak, director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Zagreb, has a clear mission: to promote Chinese ...

While doomscrolling one sleepless evening I came across the Epicurean paradox, which argues that a deity who is simultaneously all-knowing, all-powerful and all-loving cannot exist. Attributed to ...