I’m sure we’ve all heard the quote, “Choose a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life (Brainy Quote, 2015).” When I first heard the quote, it was from my 9th grade English teacher and I couldn’t tell you who had said it. But every day, she would repeat the same quote almost like clockwork and it stuck with me. With a little help from google, I found out that the quote belong to Kong Qiu or for many of us Confucius. Born around 551 BC, he lost his father at the tender age of 3 and grew up in poverty with his mother. Growing up in this horrible poverty was perhaps the greatest influence that helped shape Confucius into the philosopher he is known for today and possibly the reason why he stressed the dignity of the ‘Common
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Traditional Chinese principles began to deteriorate, resulting in a period of moral decline (Confucius, 2015). Realizing that China was at its most vulnerable, he set out to strengthen society’s values of compassion and tradition. He choose to exercise self-discipline whole, primarily focusing on the principle of “ren’ or “loving others” (Confucius, 2015). Basically Confucius set out to create a system of social and political ethics based on loyalty, kinship, righteousness and filial piety. His teachings covered everything from how a man should at in his daily life to how one should govern. He believe that leaders needed to be able to have self-discipline in order to be humble and have empathy for this followers. With this, leaders would be able to motivate their subjects to follow the law teaching them integrity and unify a force of ritual …show more content…
It was able to bring stability into the country which had been greatly affected for previous changeovers in dynasty’s (Vaughan-Pow, n.d.). Confucius believe that every person had a place in society, and he made sure to stress this through his philosophy which in tune turned Ancient China into a structured society. He believe that “Rulers and teachers, according to this view, are important models for society: a good government should rule by virtue and moral example rather than by punishment or force (Violatti, 2013).” Not only that but he believe that society was only based off of work and effort, given by the social class. His biggest impact on society was creating a school. This school educated young boys in the way of Confucianism and also taught them calligraphy, so many of the boys went off to become scholars. But the beliefs of Confucianism made woman subordinate throughout the religion. They confirmed the claim that woman were not a powerful or wise as men. This as a whole impacted how woman were viewed as in society causing many woman to try and claim social status with unethical practices such as foot-binding. “For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a ‘golden lotus’ (Foreman, 2015).” Confucianism did create a society
Traditional Chinese principles began to deteriorate, resulting in a period of moral decline (Confucius, 2015). Realizing that China was at its most vulnerable, he set out to strengthen society’s values of compassion and tradition. He choose to exercise self-discipline whole, primarily focusing on the principle of “ren’ or “loving others” (Confucius, 2015). Basically Confucius set out to create a system of social and political ethics based on loyalty, kinship, righteousness and filial piety. His teachings covered everything from how a man should at in his daily life to how one should govern. He believe that leaders needed to be able to have self-discipline in order to be humble and have empathy for this followers. With this, leaders would be able to motivate their subjects to follow the law teaching them integrity and unify a force of ritual …show more content…
It was able to bring stability into the country which had been greatly affected for previous changeovers in dynasty’s (Vaughan-Pow, n.d.). Confucius believe that every person had a place in society, and he made sure to stress this through his philosophy which in tune turned Ancient China into a structured society. He believe that “Rulers and teachers, according to this view, are important models for society: a good government should rule by virtue and moral example rather than by punishment or force (Violatti, 2013).” Not only that but he believe that society was only based off of work and effort, given by the social class. His biggest impact on society was creating a school. This school educated young boys in the way of Confucianism and also taught them calligraphy, so many of the boys went off to become scholars. But the beliefs of Confucianism made woman subordinate throughout the religion. They confirmed the claim that woman were not a powerful or wise as men. This as a whole impacted how woman were viewed as in society causing many woman to try and claim social status with unethical practices such as foot-binding. “For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a ‘golden lotus’ (Foreman, 2015).” Confucianism did create a society