If you’d like an introduction to the life and ideas of Confucius, you could do much worse than The Story of the Real Confucius, a 90-minute docudrama produced by the […]
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What Kind of Teacher was Confucius?
Although Kongzi (Confucius) held a few government positions, he spent most of his life as a teacher. We can never know what a day in Kongzi’s “classroom” was like, but […]
How Did Ru Critique Confucius?
The reason why “Confucianism” is a misnomer unacceptable by Ru practitioners can be understood from this perspective: When James Legge (1815-1897 C.E), a congregationalist Christian missionary who worked in China […]
A Ruist View of Death
Ruism is frequently introduced as a tradition which is too this-worldly to care much about what happens after death. To a certain degree, this is true. Ruism teaches that there […]