Confucius
551 BCE – 479 BCElived
Qufu, State of Lu
- Confucianism
An unemployed advisor who spent his life failing to find a ruler who would listen, and in the process defined how much of East Asia would think about duty, ritual and character for the next 2,500 years.
Known for
- ren (humaneness)
- li (ritual propriety)
- the rectification of names