The Teacher
Confucius
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
A teacher in the state of Lu whose sayings, gathered by his students, made humaneness, ritual and learning the core of Chinese ethics.
Key work: The Analects
“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Ren is the warmth that makes ritual human.
Study and reflection need each other.
A ruler’s character is the weather of the people.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
The Silver RuleThe Weather of the PeopleWarmth in a Hard HourThe Four and the Seven
Quest with Confucius above to start the climb and open these lessons.
