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Chinese Philosophical Etext Archive - English
URL: http://sangle.web.wesleyan.edu/etext/index.html

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The archive is based at Wesleyan University, and gratefully acknowledges support from Wesleyan, the Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, and the New England Council of the Association of Asian Studies.

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Confucianism - English
URL: http://www.cthonia.com/atrium/relig_isms/confucionism.html

Pertaining to or characteristic of the Chinese philosopher and educator Confucius (Kung Ch'iu, 551-478 B.C.), whose system of morality focussed on developing virtue without worshipping a god. He believed that one should act honorably and that concerns about how or why we are here or where we are going are of little value. Systematically denied a high position in the Chinese government -- no doubt because the leadership would have found his virtue intolerable -- he died a sad and lonely man, whose dream of honorable government by honorable men was never realized.

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