Confucius

Confucius (551–479 BC), the first teacher of the Middle Kingdom, the thinker and philosopher, the first in history to discover a person as a creative, social being, proclaiming with simplicity worthy of the founder of great civilization: a person has no higher calling than to truly realize himself A person and becoming a creator of culture is the only reality that is completely and fully created by people. Its teachings - Confucianism, which had a huge impact on the civilization of China and East Asia, still excites the minds and attracts the attention of not only the East, but also the West. Famous Chinese Vladimir Malyavin, reflecting in the book all the basic information about the life and views of Confucius, completes it with the judgments of the teacher Kun himself, which today, in the age of fuss and speeds, remain the truth: “The noble husband is serene and free, a low person is depressed and mourned” , “A noble husband does not care about his own, but about the common interests, a low person, on the contrary, cares not about common, but about his own interests”, “The noble husband is world -loving, but not flattering, a low person, but not peaceful” ... The biography of the sage Filled in the narrative, and somewhere in the parable manner, will undoubtedly interest the thinking reader