# Confucius

- Id: `confucius`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/confucius/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `998e38d7664c2fb86a98a70f22b5311bfd40c0d0f0d396172b24c2263d2ed257`

## Summary

A teacher of humane conduct, ritual attention and practiced judgment, reconstructed from the posthumous Analects without pretending that the collection is his autobiography.

## Overview

Traditional year of Confucius' death. The Analects are an authorized posthumous carrier, not a diary or autograph.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "traditionally 551-479 BCE; details transmitted by later sources",
    "era": "Classical Antiquity",
    "distance": "about 2,504 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "chinese-thought",
    "name": "Early Chinese thought",
    "detail": "Early Chinese ethical and political thought",
    "labels": [
        "Early Chinese thought",
        "Early Chinese ethical and political thought"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -479,
    "display": "479 BCE",
    "reason": "Traditional year of Confucius' death. The Analects are an authorized posthumous carrier, not a diary or autograph."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 1,
    "passages": 20,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "lzh"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 3
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Qufu / Lu",
        "period": "traditional 551-479 BCE",
        "description": "Traditional birthplace and principal setting in Lu, known through later biography and transmitted texts.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E"
    },
    {
        "name": "States of the Central Plain",
        "period": "traditional years of travel",
        "description": "Later traditions describe travel among courts. No route is treated as a certain first-person itinerary.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E"
    },
    {
        "name": "Dingzhou",
        "period": "1st century BCE manuscript context",
        "description": "Archaeological context of a Han Analects witness. It documents transmission, not a journey by Confucius.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E"
    },
    {
        "name": "Wei",
        "period": "traditional itinerant years",
        "description": "A major stop in the later transmitted itinerary.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Song",
        "period": "traditional itinerant years",
        "description": "Later biography places Confucius in Song.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Chen",
        "period": "traditional itinerant years",
        "description": "Later biography places Confucius in Chen.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Cai",
        "period": "traditional itinerant years",
        "description": "Later biography places Confucius in Cai.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Chu",
        "period": "traditional itinerant years",
        "description": "Later biography extends the itinerary toward Chu.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/confucius/"
    }
]
```