![]() ![]() Those caring relationships are a system of “ritual” that people enact in their daily lives, thus infusing the secular with scared dimensions. Beginning with the realization that society is a structure of human relationships, Confucius saw that in a healthy society this structure must be a selfless weave of caring relationships. His thought, still remarkably current and even innovative after 2500 years, survives here in The Analects - a collection of brief aphoristic sayings that has had a deeper impact on more people’s lives over a longer period of time than any other book in human history.įormulated in the ruins of a society that had been founded on untenable spiritualistic concepts of governance, Confucius’ philosophy postulated a humanistic social order that has survived as China’s social ideal ever since. ![]() ![]() While Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization with his teachings, he was to become the most influential sage in human history. ![]()
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