Confucius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...551 479? b.c., Chinese sage. Positive evidence...Confucius is scanty; modern scholars base their accounts...feudal state of Lu, in modern Shandong prov. Distressed...constant warfare between the Chinese states and by the venality...classics (see Chinese literature ). His supposed doctrines...