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The history of philosophy is full with great minds that have had such great impact on humanity. Even in the present day, philosophers' names, views on life, and the world are still remembered and passed down generation to generation.
One philosopher is the man born in 551 BC in the ancient state of Lu in China. He is known in the east as K'ung Tzu or Kung Fu Tzu but in the west he is known as Confucius. Born during the depressing age known as the Warring States Period, Confucius grew up in a society marked with chaos and disorder. Immorality became the rule and the old traditional values were ignored. The once powerful Chou dynasty, a great accomplishment of the ancient Chinese civilization, was coming to an end. Confucius spent most of his life travelling from one state to another, hoping to attain his values of political and social reform. He thought that his duty to the Chinese society was to bring back an era when government leaders were righteous, virtues were upheld and......

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