Catholic Encyclopedia: Confucianism
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Description: An article by Charles F. Aiken from this 1912 reference work. Reviews the key teachings and history of Confucianism, and its relation to Christianity.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Confucianism By Confucianism is meant the complex system of moral, social, political, and religious teaching built up by Confucius on the ancient Chinese traditions, and perpetuated as the State religion down to the present day. Confucianism aims at making not simply the man of virtue, but the man of learning and of good manners. The perfect man must combine the qualities of saint, scholar, and gentleman. Confucianism is a religion without positive revelation, with a minimum of dogmatic teaching, whose popular worship is centered in offerings to the dead, in which the notion of
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| Description: | An article by Charles F. Aiken. Reviews the key teachings and history of Confucianism, and its relation to Christianity |
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