How to pronounce “confucius” in English

Confucius says, a picture's worth 10,000 words.

"Confucius at Home." "Confucius at Home" is about the philosopher Confucius, who has a scribe with him at all times.

Confucius.

was Confucius. They saw Confucius, the traditional sage who for 2,500 years in one way or another had underpinned Chinese thinking as not the solution,

So Confucius having underpinned Chinese society in many ways for 2,500 years then gets a severe kicking,

So Confucius was being put in the same breath as Lin Biao, a man who happened to be at that point Mao's worst

with Confucius being at the center of it.

Because Confucius, I think, is being put forward by the Chinese state, both domestically and internationally, because he's such a useful symbol.

From Confucius on down, people have been warning us of that.

As Confucius will say, 'overcome this self-meaning, this messy self.'

but so is Confucius.

The great Chinese thinker Confucius.

They argued that Confucius was a purveyor of feudal thinking, old-fashioned thinking that held China back.

And that was Confucius.

A statue of Confucius, you see one here.

There's the Confucius carving and polishing strategies.

that venerated Confucius and made much of the need to follow his moral dictates.

celebration of Confucius and his ideas may seem a bit odd, since they may remember mass campaigns to criticize all vestiges of Confucianthought.

It's found in Confucius's idea of right virtue, it's found in Aristotle's Nicomachean ethics, and it's found in Al-Ghazali's idea that the right way is in accordance with Allah.

But if you can linger on Confucius for a little bit, you write that one of the most famous statements of Confucianism is the belief that, quote,

And we were given the UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy recognizing that we weren't just taking books like "Pippi Longstocking" or "Heidi"

There's a famous saying from Confucius-- not one of the ones that you get from fortune cookies, but an actual saying from Confucius--

After half a century or more of Confucius being downgraded or condemned by Mao as a feudal character, now we're back in a world where Confucian language--

including things like bottles of Confucius liqueur or Confucius chopsticks.

of why the revival of Confucius both has lots of potential in it, but also causes difficulties.

One of the people awarded the Confucius Peace Prize was that well-known peace lover Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia.

So I mentioned this guy Confucius that we tend to associate with Confucianism, this idea that we should just follow a bunch of rituals

We think of people like Confucius and Mencius and so on.

So the China of today celebrates ideas of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher who lived 2,500 years ago.

Can you tell me about the ideas of Confucius?

And you know, for Confucius, he said, so we should study the text, we should study how the sages of old behaved

So he was very much against the things that Confucius stood for.

And the language came very much from the stable of Confucius.

So let me now say a few more words about Confucius.

And sometimes, that annoys Confucius.

The Chinese have revered education since the time of Confucius.

You study Aristotle but at the same time you read Confucius who was Aristotle’s contemporary.

Can you speak to this Confucius' idea of education,

And also there was something built in that was not so much Confucius himself, but one of his main interpreters,

Therefore, we go back to Confucius.

And as it happened, this particular thinker-- Confucius-- still known today often as China's number one teacher, began to put forward a system of ethical and social

It's worth thinking briefly what some of the ideas that someone like Confucius put forth were, because they were not just relevant to the world

But it was called the Campaign to Criticize Lin Biao and Criticize Confucius.

But certainly, the brand name value of Confucius has really bounced back in a big way.

And we have here a scene from a blockbuster movie on the life of Confucius, which starred the Hong Kong action

So they launched their own alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize-- the Confucius Peace Prize-- which I have to say in the few years since,

Let me describe the way he, Confucius, is described.

And you ask yourself why did Aristotle have certain concerns about politics but Confucius had others.

- First of all, we don't know that much about the historic Confucius.