# Confucius

Confucius lived in the late Spring and Autumn period of ancient China, conventionally dated 551-479 BCE; early biographical details are filtered through later texts. His attributed teaching emphasized ethical cultivation, learning, ritual propriety, humane conduct, role-based responsibility, and government by moral example.

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