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CONFUCIANISM

Published on Apr 02, 2016

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CONFUCIUS AND ARISTOTLE

BY: DEREK TILLER AND NICK BUSBY

Confucianism is originated as an "ethical-sociopolitical teaching" during the Spring & Autumn Period, but later developed aspects of a heaven and afterlife in the Han Dynasty.

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Confucianism is an ethical and philosophical system sometimes described as a religion, developed from teachings of the Chinese Philosopher "Confucius" named K'ung-fu-tzu.

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CONFUCIUS

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The most significant historical figure in the Confucian religion is Confucius (551-479 BC). Confucius was a Chinese philosopher, politician, teacher, and more who was interested in the moral conduct of people and socieities. His lessons are in the analects.

ARISTOTLE

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Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and scientist born in the Macedonian city of Stagira, which is in the northern part of Classical Greece.

Aristotle not only studied almost every subject possible at the time, but made significant contributions to most of them.

Teaching Alexander the Great gave him many opportunities and an abundance of supplies.

Aristotle was suspected of playing a role in Alexander's death, but there is little evidence.

In general, the details of the life of Aristotle are not well-established. The biographies of Aristotle written in ancient times are often speculative and historians only agree on a few points.

Aristotle wrote the Nicomachean Ethics, it consists of ten books, originally separate scrolls, and is understood to be based on notes from his lectures at the Lyceum, which were either edited by or dedicated to Aristotle's son, Nicomachus. These ten books can be compared to confucious' analects.

Most Greek philosophers agreed that virtue is a form of knowledge. They generally thought that self-examination leads to self-knowledge which in turn leads to the good life. For the moral virtues Aristotle found this knowledge in a mean that is "relative to us" and is shown to us by phron‘sis, a concept that parallels with the Confucian yi.

So Aristotle did a lot more knowledge based philosophy while confucious mainly philosophized on spiritual ideas which were included in his analects.