Confucius biography and teachings of jonah

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Confucius biography and teachings of jonah

Confucius' Life

The sources for Confucius' life were compiled well after his death and taken together paint contradictory pictures of his personality and of the events in his life. The early works agreed by textual authorities to be relatively reliable sources of biographical material are: the Analects, compiled by Confucius' disciples and later followers during the centuries following his death; the Zuozhuan, a narrative history composed from earlier sources sometime in the fourth century; and the Mengzi or Mencius, a compilation of the teachings of the well-known eponymous fourth century follower of Confucius' thought put together by his disciples and adherents.^[2] The Confucius of the Analects appears most concerned with behaving morally even when this means enduring hardship and poverty.

Mencius' Confucius is a politically motivated figure, seeking high office and departing from patrons who do not properly reward him.^[3] A third Confucius is found i