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Sorry but you are wrong on all counts, such may apply in Communism, but not Confucianism, which has the following as it main tenets:-
Confucius aim was on moral influence; a code of ethics, rather then spiritual attainment, although I suppose one could say Confucius believed the latter was attainable through the former. As at the cent re of Confucianism is not a god, but humankind. Confucius believed society could only improve through the individual and that human happiness, peace of mind and stability lay not in worship ping idols, but in cultivating human relationships.
Religious ceremonies and the personal behavior of the superior man to which minute detail was given were paramount in Confucius teachings. However, Confucius stressed that an ideal society could only be achieved by the moral example set by the rulers and upper classes and in this thinking we can see some contradictions. For example; his belief in equal rights, in that all should be able to learn the ancient classics and not just a small handful of the aristocracy is clearly laid-out in the Analects Book 7, chapter 7. ?From the man bringing his bundle of dried fish for my teaching upwards, I have never refused instruction to any one.? Again in Book 15, chapter 38. ?In teaching there should be no distinction of classes.? So in Confucianism the lower classes could be educated, but only the upper classes were capable of setting a moral example! It is perhaps for this reason IE, the Confucian teaching was ?open to all classes,? that Confucius was said to have had just over three thousand pupils, which must have been a large number for his time, if not an exaggerated number. Seventy-two of whom were versed in the Six Arts:
1) Ceremony.
2) Music.
3) Writing.
4) Mathematics.
5) Archery.
6) Charioteering.
Confucius was once asked what was filial piety? He answers: ?It is not being disobedient, that parents, when alive, should be served according to propriety; that when dead, they should be buried according to propriety; and that they should be sacrificed to according to propriety.? Analects Book 2, chapter 5: 1-3. We see here Confucius teaching the virtues of respect within the family, this formed the main tenet of his philosophy; it is also to be found in the Bible; Exodus;20:12, the fifth Commandment, and in the earliest records of the Shu King, which Prue-dates Moses by several centuries. Confucius taught that by cultivating respect for others, especially within the family hierarchy; neighborly love; learning; trust and humility, a better society could be created. Because the basis of mutual co-operation thus beginning within the family, it would then quite naturally extend to friends, ministers, the prince?s of the realm and finally to the ruler himself. Yet there are strange contradictions here within Confucian philosophy, given only ?the upper classes were capable of setting a moral example,? how then is ?mutual co-operation,? from all quarters of society to spread throughout the empire when it requires ?moral ethics? from all concerned in order to do so? Confucius also believed that living a life of such virtue is taking a natural course, or the path of Tao. This being so, Confucius assumed society would then have and work within, an orderly fashion, however, even Confucius himself could not follow such a doctrine whole-heatedly and he taught it!
I hope this helps to clarify your understanding of Confucianism.
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